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Healthcare policy and law

Section edited by Benjamin Mason Meier

This section considers studies regarding the impact of international and national policies on healthcare for individuals and communities.

  1. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was ratified in 2004 in Slovakia and in 2005 in Finland. The aim of this study was to compare the implementation of the FCTC in the national laws and policies...

    Authors: Barbara Pavlikova and Jitse P. van Dijk
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:26
  2. Disrespectful and abusive treatment of women by health care providers during the process of childbirth at health facility is an international problem. There is a lack of data on disrespect and abuse of women d...

    Authors: Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Berhan Tsegaye and Abebaw Abeje
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:23
  3. The magnitude of the noncommunicable epidemic is difficult to overstate. The projected cost of the epidemic is substantial. It disproportionately affects people in low- and middle-income countries as well as p...

    Authors: Preslava Stoeva
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:18
  4. Recent years have seen contentious debate about efforts to schedule medicines such as ketamine and tramadol under the international drug control conventions. Proponents argue that misuse poses a significant ri...

    Authors: Diederik Lohman and Damon Barrett
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:10
  5. Scholars have long been sceptical about the effectiveness of human rights treaties in changing the behaviour of states parties and prior empirical research has often justified that scepticism. However, only a ...

    Authors: Gary W. Reinbold
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2019 19:24
  6. Texts and interpretations on the lawfulness of abortion and associated administrative requirements can be vague and confusing. It can also be difficult for a woman or provider to know exactly where to look for...

    Authors: Antonella F. Lavelanet, Stephanie Schlitt, Brooke Ronald Johnson Jr and Bela Ganatra
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:44
  7. The Global Abortion Policies Database (GAPD), launched in June 2017, provides a verifiable, comprehensive, nuanced approach to information and data sources on abortion law and policy. Abortion laws, policies, ...

    Authors: Brooke Ronald Johnson Jr, Antonella Francheska Lavelanet and Stephanie Schlitt
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:35
  8. Although violence against women (VAW) is a global public health issue, its importance as a health issue is often unrecognized in legal and health policy documents. This paper uses Sri Lanka as a case study to ...

    Authors: Manuela Colombini, Susannah H Mayhew, Ragnhild Lund, Navpreet Singh, Katarina Swahnberg, Jennifer Infanti, Berit Schei and Kumudu Wijewardene
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:22
  9. The current political crisis, conflicts and riots in many Middle Eastern and African countries have led to massive migration waves towards Europe. European countries, receiving these migratory waves as first p...

    Authors: Christos Lionis, Elena Petelos, Enkeleint-Aggelos Mechili, Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea, Agapi Angelaki, Imre Rurik, Danica Rotar Pavlic, Christopher Dowrick, Michel Dückers, Dean Ajdukovic, Helena Bakic, Elena Jirovsky, Elisabeth Sophie Mayrhuber, Maria van den Muijsenbergh and Kathryn Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:11
  10. WHO has a pivotal role to play as the leading international agency promoting good practices in health and human rights. In 2005, mifepristone and misoprostol were added to WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicin...

    Authors: Katrina Perehudoff, Lucía Berro Pizzarossa and Jelle Stekelenburg
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:8
  11. By 2030, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world. While law and policy have an important role to play in curbing this pandemic, our current understanding...

    Authors: Brigit Toebes, Marlies Hesselman, Jitse P. van Dijk and Joost Herman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2017 17:25
  12. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, include a comprehensive health goal, “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages.” The health goal (SDG 3) has nine sub...

    Authors: Audrey R. Chapman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:33
  13. Persons with psychosocial disabilities face disparate access to healthcare and social services worldwide, along with systemic discrimination, structural inequalities, and widespread human rights abuses. Accord...

    Authors: Steven J. Hoffman, Lathika Sritharan and Ali Tejpar
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:28
  14. In 2005, the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged member states to aim at achieving affordable universal coverage and access to key promotive, preventive, curative, rehabili...

    Authors: John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Paulina Tindana, Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, Harry Nartey and James Akazili
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:21
  15. The rights of women and people living with HIV (PLHIV) are protected under South African law, yet there is a gap in the application of these laws. While there are numerous systemic and social barriers to women...

    Authors: Lauren M. Hill, Suzanne Maman, David Holness and Dhayendre Moodley
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:3
  16. The heads of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance have recently promoted the idea of an international tiered pricing framework for medicines, despite objections from civil society groups who fear that this wo...

    Authors: Gorik Ooms, Lisa Forman, Owain D Williams and Peter S Hill
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:37
  17. Donor engagement in transitional settings, complex emergencies and fragile states is increasing. Neither short-term humanitarian aid nor traditional development financing are well adapted for such environments...

    Authors: Peter Salama, Wei Ha, Joel Negin and Samson Muradzikwa
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:35
  18. The ‘Cash Transfer to Orphans and Vulnerable Children’ (CT-OVC) in Kenya is a government-supported program intended to provide regular and predictable cash transfers (CT) to poor households taking care of OVC....

    Authors: David Ayuku, Lonnie Embleton, Julius Koech, Lukoye Atwoli, Liangyuan Hu, Samuel Ayaya, Joseph Hogan, Winstone Nyandiko, Rachel Vreeman, Allan Kamanda and Paula Braitstein
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:25
  19. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs provide poor families with cash conditional on investments in health and education. Brazil’s Bolsa Família program began in 2003 and is currently the largest CCT progra...

    Authors: Amie Shei, Federico Costa, Mitermayer G Reis and Albert I Ko
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:10
  20. Inequality in health services access and utilization are influenced by out-of-pocket health expenditures in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Various antecedents such as social factors, poor health...

    Authors: Ethel Mary Brinda, Rodriguez Antonio Andrés and Ulrika Enemark
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:5

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:18

  21. The global response to HIV suggests the potential of an emergent global right to health norm, embracing shared global responsibility for health, to assist policy communities in framing the obligations of the d...

    Authors: Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:4
  22. The present Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015 and their next iteration is now being discussed within the international community. With regards to health, the World Health Organization prop...

    Authors: Gorik Ooms, Laila A Latif, Attiya Waris, Claire E Brolan, Rachel Hammonds, Eric A Friedman, Moses Mulumba and Lisa Forman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:3
  23. Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the right to health should guide the formulation of replacement goals for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. However, the right to he...

    Authors: Lisa Forman, Gorik Ooms, Audrey Chapman, Eric Friedman, Attiya Waris, Everaldo Lamprea and Moses Mulumba
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:48
  24. Tribal people in India, as in other parts of the world, reside mostly in forests and/or hilly terrains. Water scarcity and health problems related to it are their prime concern. Watershed management can contri...

    Authors: Sandeep S Nerkar, Ashok J Tamhankar, Eva Johansson and Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:42
  25. Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established into law in 2003 and implemented in 2005 as a ‘pro-poor’ method of health financing, has made great progress in enrolling members of the general pop...

    Authors: Jenna Dixon, Eric Y Tenkorang and Isaac Luginaah
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:35
  26. Governance has been cited as a key determinant of economic growth, social advancement and overall development. Achievement of millennium development goals is partly dependant on governance practices. In 2007, ...

    Authors: Wilbroad Mutale, Margaret Tembo Mwanamwenge, Dina Balabanova, Neil Spicer and Helen Ayles
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:34
  27. Studies that have looked at the effect of polio eradication efforts in India on routine immunization programs have provided mixed findings. One polio eradication project, funded by US Agency for International ...

    Authors: William M Weiss, Manojkumar Choudhary and Roma Solomon
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:25
  28. The increasingly recognized need for reorganizing the primary health care services in Iraq calls for a comprehensive assessment of the system to better understand its problems and needs for development. As par...

    Authors: Nazar P Shabila, Namir G Al-Tawil, Tariq S Al-Hadithi and Egbert Sondorp
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:18
  29. This paper outlines stakeholder views on environmental barriers that prevent people who live with psychosocial disability from participating in mental health policy development in South Africa.

    Authors: Sharon Kleintjes, Crick Lund and Leslie Swartz
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:17
  30. One approach to delivering healthcare in developing countries is through voucher programs, where vouchers are distributed to a specific population for free or subsidized health care. Recent evaluations suggest...

    Authors: Carinne D Brody, Julie Freccero, Claire D Brindis and Ben Bellows
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:13