International Human Rights Lexicon

In: Human rights quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 1082-1088

Abstract

In exploring the interrelation of health and human rights, Marks and Clapham identify four general kinds of connections before presenting an analysis of the 'broad-based, integrative right' to health in view of its international and domestic recognition, its scope (an aspect for which they rely mostly on General Comment 14 of the ICESCR),24 the obligations it entails for governments, and the essential aspect of its linkage with private interests through the important debate on intellectual property rights on life-saving drugs and issues of accountability for states and private parties.