Abstract:

The right to health is a human right. This article describes and analyzes the components of the right to health in international human rights law. The right to health has been elaborated on in numerous conventions, at both the international and regional levels. The right to health is typically included in the category of economic, social and cultural rights. In the context of international human rights, economic, social and cultural rights are sometimes distinguished from civil and political rights, although it is often asserted that both sets of rights are interdependent, interrelated, and of equal importance. Like all human rights, economic, social and cultural rights also entail a tri-partite typology of obligations on states to respect, to protect and to fulfill these rights

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