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Health as a Human Right Issue.

Women And Health 

                                                   Health is one of the fundamental  human rights ans there many important linkages between health and other human rights. Still the focus on human rights within the health context is relatively recent. The right to health is an inclusive right. It can be understood as a right to the enjoyment of a variety of facilities, goods, services and conditions necessary for the realization of the highest attainable stand able of health. The enjoyment of right to health is linked to other human rights such as the right to food and education.
Key human rights principles such as participation , accountability, transparency, non-discrimination, empowerment and local ownership related to health and affect the health policies and program-mes. In many ways human rights violations affect health for example:
  • Human rights violations often have serious health consequences violence against women and children , torture  female genital mutilation .
  • Health program's can promote or violate human rights in the ways they are designed and implemented rights to information,confidentiality, privacy, participation, equality, of access and non-discrimination .
  • If human rights are respected protected and fulfilled , it can reduce people's vulnerability ill-health rights to food and nutrition , freedom from discrimination.
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