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Kabengele Mpinga, Emmanuel, Kandolo, Tshimungu , Verloo, Henk , Bukonda, Ngoyi K. Zachari, Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin and Chastonay, Philippe (2013) Traditional/alternative medicines and the right to health : key elements for a convention on global health. Health and Human Rights: an international journal, Volume 15 (Issue 1). ISSN 1079-0969.
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Abstract
Little has been done to investigate and promote the importance of non-conventional medicines (NCMs) in the realization of the right to health, yet all over the world
people regularly resort to NCMs to secure healing or to prevent or mitigate the occurrence of a wide range of morbidities. This study aims to elucidate the theoretical
framework of the role of NCMs in realizing the right to health, to identify the potential manifestations and causes of violations of the right to health in their practice, and to propose the practice of NCMs that could be included in a Framework Convention on Global Health.
We use both the documentary analysis and the violation of rights approaches. Through a non-directive review of the literature, we have tried to clarify the concepts
and uniqueness of NCMs. We have also tried to unveil the challenges facing NCMs in a context where conventional medicines assume extensive power. The human rights
approach has enabled us to bring to light the potential challenges to the rights of the various stakeholders that NCMs create. We argue that NCMs can contribute to realizing the right to health through their availability, accessibility, acceptability, and relative quality. The Framework Convention on Global Health could contribute to the effective realization of this right by integrating
basic principles to ensure the recognition, protection, promotion, and conservation of NCMs—at least of those NCMs that have shown evidence of efficacy—as well as
catalyzing increased international cooperation in this area.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) > Warwick Evidence Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Drugs -- Research, Drugs -- Standards, Medical care -- Utilization, Medical care, Cost of -- Developing countries, Drugs -- Developing countries, Alternative medicine, Traditional medicine | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health and Human Rights: an international journal | ||||
| Publisher: | Harvard School for Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights | ||||
| ISSN: | 1079-0969 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 15 | ||||
| Number: | Issue 1 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 |
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