Search This Blog

Fifa Rahman on Health Justice

Thoughts on my global work on access to medicines and health technologies

Posts

Showing posts with the label ICESCR

Show All

January 25, 2011

The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Failings in Human Rights, Drug Law, Disability Rights and Health

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

About Me

Fifa Rahman
LLB (Hons) MHL (Master of Health Law) (Sydney)

Currently working on a PhD on intellectual property, international trade, and access to medicines at the University of Leeds.

I can be reached at: fifarahman@outlook.com or via twitter: @fifarahman

Follow @fifarahman

Labels

a2m4
abortion politics1
abstinence1
abuse1
access to medicines7
Alcohol Server Liability1
amphetamine-type substances1
amputation1
Angelman's syndrome1
apotemnophilia1

Article 5.31
asbestos litigation2
asylum seekers1
baby dumping3
birth hypoxia2
birth injury2
Body Integrity Identity Disorder1
British American Tobacco2
cancer1
causation1
cerebral palsy2
CHIS1
cigarette advertising1
CND1
comorbidity1
decriminalisation3
depressive disorders1
diabetes1
direct-acting antivirals1
disability rights3
DNDi1
dolutegravir1
drug diversion1
drug law10
drug policy12
epidemics1
ethics2
evidence-based policy1
fast food ad ban1
Fast Track1
FCTC2
food advertising1
food labelling1
harm reduction9
HCV2
health communication2
health discrimination1
health education2
health law vs. criminal law1
health metropolis1
health promotion1
healthcare ethics1
Hepatitis1
Hepatitis C2
heroin1
HIV self testing1
HIV/AIDS7
human rights1
ICESCR1
Indiana1
infant abandonment3
innovation1
intellectual property1
international law1
IVLP1
law enforcement and public health1
Medicaid1
medical marijuana2
medical negligence2
medicine prices1
mental health6
mental health insurance parity1
mesothelioma2
methadone1
methamphetamine1
MSM1
neuroethics1
obesity3
opiates1
OraQuick1
paediatric HIV1
passive smoking1
pediatrics1
performance-based regulation1
PhRMA1
plain packaging1
prison health1
prisons1
prohibition4
psychiatry4
public health11
refugees1
right to health3
rural health1
secondhand smoke1
sex education1
smoke-free areas2
Sub-Saharan Africa1
suicide1
tobacco advertising1
tobacco control13
tobacco control NGOs1
tobacco cultivation + manufacture1
tobacco industry tactics2
tobacco litigation1
tobacco sponsorship1
TPP4
TPPA5
trade4
trade agreements7
trade and health6
traffic light labelling1
Trans-Pacific Partnership2
tuberculosis1
UNGASS1
Unitaid1
United Nations1
voluntary licences1
Zimbabwe1

Show more Show less

Access to Health Links

BMC Public Health - Latest Articles

Support preferences among women with and without postpartum depression and anxiety disorder - Some women struggle with mental health problems such as postpartum depression (PPD) or postpartum anxiety disorder (PAD) after giving birth. This can have ...
2 days ago
Harm Reduction Journal - Latest Articles

The ‘selves’ in doping and its psychosocial mechanisms: harmonised multi-country evidence from high-performing athletes in the UK, US, and China - Doping remains an ongoing threat to clean competition. To date, global preventive initiatives have not addressed critical psychosocial antecedents of dopin...
1 week ago
Sydney Health Law | The blog of the Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics

Two years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concerns - While a new Melbourne trial finds psilocybin-assisted therapy beneficial for the mental health of terminally ill patients, Australia’s broader experiment w...
3 weeks ago
Tobacco Control current issue

First post-COVID World Conference on Tobacco Control: making progress in the 'new normal - This year marked the first full in-person World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now renamed the World C...
1 month ago
Intellectual Property Watch

Lets Move Ahead With IP-Watch 2.0: We Need Your Input! - What’s new in the international policymaking on intellectual property, innovation and information? What’s at stake at this year’s @WIPO Assemblies? It’s th...
5 years ago
Addiction Journal - News

Malaysia plans to decriminalise drug possession - Posted 02-Sep-19 The Health Minister of Malaysia has confirmed the government’s intention to decriminalise all drug use and possession. There will be no ...
6 years ago
Editorials

The disparity between changes in the prevalence of mental illness and disability support rates in Australia - Clarifying the type of support needed by people with a psychiatric disability must be a priority
8 years ago
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics - Wiley Online Library

-
Journal of Public Health Policy - Table of Contents

-
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - Wiley Online Library

-
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal - Paperback

-
International Journal of Drug Policy

-
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

-
Health Policy - Journal - Elsevier

-

Fifa's books

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

I bought this book because I wanted to understand the white working poor and the differences to poor Asian immigrants who soldier on and work hard and create doctors and lawyers and engineers, and why they would vote for Trump. I wanted ...