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How do Human Rights issues have an impact on Public Health?

Human rights respect is a distinguishing feature of harm minimization. It is also commonly

referred to as a public health movement. Both health law and public health law have long been
used to promote and protect people's health. Both, however, have a limited impact and extent.
Furthermore, they do not adequately address or provide a systemic remedy. Human rights
considerations in the health-care legal approach may provide a viable answer to this gap.

Human rights inpatient care is defined as the reframing of international human rights law and
constitutional thought and tools into a unified approach to the preservation and advancement
of personal and communal health. It applies human rights rhetoric and law to the context of
patient care. Simultaneously, it pushes away from a narrow consumerist perspective on health-
care delivery.

Human rights should be applied to health care by policymakers. The courts can then operate as
policy-influencing mechanisms to protect the rights of the most vulnerable.

Health and Human Rights Issues are Intertwined

The first link is between health policy, laws, programs, and practices and their positive and
negative consequences on human rights. The goal is to strike the best possible balance between
public health and human rights protection. Countries must conform their national health
systems, laws, services, and practices to national and international human rights instruments to
attain this goal.

The second relationship indicates how violations of human rights or a lack of fulfillment in these
areas harm physical, emotional, and social well-being. This is true in both times of peace and
conflict, as well as periods of severe political repression.

The unavoidable link between health and human rights issues is the third relationship.
A basic tenet of a health and human rights strategy is that health and human rights are
mutually reinforcing. Promoting and protecting health necessitates clear and practical efforts to
advance and preserve human rights and dignity. Furthermore, achieving greater human rights
fulfillment necessitates paying close attention to health and its socioeconomic factors. In other
words, maintaining one's health is critical to exercising one's human rights. At the same time,
exercising one's human rights has a favorable impact on one's health. The pleasure of health,
for example, is required for the exercise of the right to work. Simultaneously, exercising one's
right to work is beneficial to one's physical and mental health.
Human rights concerning health are being developed.
Human rights law lies at the heart of public health policies, services, and programs.
International human rights principles have always been important in:
*Framing health-related concerns in a legal setting
*Integrating key values into policy discussions
*Over the previous 70 years, public health has improved dramatically.
*Facilitating accountability for obtaining the maximum level of health possible

These health-related human rights have progressed dramatically. As a result, the human rights
system has progressed from developing human rights under international law to putting those
rights into practice through national government. Policymakers have been urged to use
national policies to implement rights. Its goal is to make health determinants accessible,
inexpensive, and of sufficient quality. Every country has its own set of constitutional
requirements, rules, and regulations that are used to enforce international law through national
policy. To ensure that "health is a human right," this is being done.
Human rights issues in public health are being operationalized.
The application of these human rights principles to public health policy has resulted in
regulatory clarity and legal accountability for public health outcomes.

The national implementation of human rights in public health serves as a foundation for
supporting accountability for human rights advancement in health. Human rights have been
incorporated into health policy by governments, academics, and practitioners. Advocates have
also attempted to establish accountability systems to track the progress of rights
implementation. This involved governments in health-related rights and used health policy to
utilize available resources. Additionally, this increased programmatic outcomes in terms of
patient outcomes by:
Advocacy in politics. Political advocacy is used by social movements to:

*Examine and revise state policies.

*Raising public awareness of national policies is essential.
*Encourage governments to follow through on their health-related human rights commitments.
Litigation. Litigation allows citizens to pursue human rights duties in the courts by
allowing the judge to:

*Address human rights violations by establishing legal precedents for government health
obligations.

*Provide accountability based on human rights through global and international courts and quasi-
judicial bodies.
Monitoring of the treaty. Treaty bodies of the United Nations monitor the country's
fulfillment of treaty obligations.

*Examining regular reports

*Participating in a "productive discourse"
*Finally, I'd like to make a few remarks.

In the last decade, the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights has been added to these
treaty organizations. The UN Human Rights Council uses these to assess all UN members'
human rights performance.

Reference:

Astran, John. “What Human Rights Issues Have an Impact on Public Health? - HealthMed.Org.”
HealthMed.Org, healthmed.org, 11 Mar. 2021, https://healthmed.org/what-human-rights-issues-
have-an-impact-on-public-health/.