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Stuttaford, Maria, Harrington, John and Lewando Hundt, Gillian. (2012) Sites for health rights : local, national, regional and global. Social Science & Medicine, Vol.74 (No.1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 02779536

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.038

Abstract

This Part-Special Issue seeks to capitalize on emerging work at the intersection of studies of global health, the right to health and ‘the spatial turn’ in the social sciences. The articles included address globally applicable research from a range of disciplines. The relevance of the right to health cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Part-Special Issue contributes to debates by presenting empirical and theoretical work from public health, social policy, political science, geography, anthropology and socio-legal studies. Attention to the right to health has increased in the last three decades mainly due to HIV/AIDS. Nevertheless, the spatial component of how to implement the right to health has been neglected by researchers, policy makers and practitioners compared to other, legal aspects of the right to health.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

K Law > K Law (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine

Divisions:

Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Health and Social Studies

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Right to health, World health

Journal or Publication Title:

Social Science & Medicine

Publisher:

Elsevier Science BV

ISSN:

02779536

Official Date:

January 2012

Dates:

Date	Event
January 2012	Published

Volume:

Vol.74

Number:

No.1

Page Range:

pp. 1-5

Identification Number:

10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.038

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Publication Status:

Published

Access rights to Published version:

Restricted or Subscription Access

Funder:

Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)

Grant number:

RES-451-25-4320 (ESRC)

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