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What can implementation science offer civil society in their efforts to drive rights-based health reform?
Over the years, civil society organizations (CSOs) have made tremendous efforts to ensure that state policies, programmes, and actions facilitate...
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Experiences of teachers and community-based health workers in addressing adolescents’ sexual reproductive health and rights problems in rural health systems: a case of the RISE project in Zambia
BackgroundAdolescents in low-and-middle-income countries like Zambia face a high burden of sexual, reproductive, health and rights problems including...
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Hel** to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health
The health of our planet and humanity is threatened by biodiversity loss, disease and climate crises that are unprecedented in human history, driven...
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Gendering the Pandemic: Women’s Health Disparities From a Human Rights Perspective
As COVID-19 keeps impacting the world, its impact is felt differently by people of different sexes and genders. International guidelines and research...
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The Cultural Politics of Mental Illness: Toward a Rights-Based Approach to Global Mental Health
The movement for global mental health (MGMH) has raised awareness about the paucity of mental health services, particularly in low- and middle-income...
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A human rights-based approach to non-communicable diseases: mandating front-of-package warning labels
Across the globe, the consumption of energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods and beverages has escalated rates of diet-related non-communicable diseases...
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A proposed One Health approach to control yellow fever outbreaks in Uganda
Yellow Fever (YF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. Uganda is located within the Africa YF belt. Between 2019 and 2022, the Ugandan Health...
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A Women’s Rights-Based Approach to Reducing Child Mortality: Data from 193 Countries Show that Gender Equality does Affect Under-five Child Mortality
ObjectivesMother’s health and wellbeing significantly affects child health. Women’s autonomy can improve healthcare-seeking behaviour, utilisation of...
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Implementing and monitoring the right to health in breast cancer: selection of indicators using a Delphi process
BackgroundWomen with breast cancer have different chances of surviving their disease, depending on where they live. Variations in survival may stem...
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A quantitative analysis of human rights-related attitude changes towards people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive disabilities following completion of the WHO QualityRights e-training in Ghana
BackgroundDespite growing recognition of essential human rights, people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive...
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Improving the health equity and the human rights of Canadians with dementia through a social determinants approach: a call to action in the COVID-19 pandemic
In 2019, the Canadian Government released a national dementia strategy that identified the need to address the health inequity (e.g., avoidable,...
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The Right to Protest During a Pandemic: Using Public Health Ethics to Bridge the Divide Between Public Health Goals and Human Rights
Public protest continued to represent a prominent form of social activism in democratic societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Australia, a lack...
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Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Mental Health
The University of Florida Counseling and Wellness Center (UFCWC) has implemented peer support and professional training programs to address human...
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Support for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new index based on World Values Survey data
BackgroundAddressing attitudes is central to achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and Agenda 2030. We aimed to develop a...
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A human centred approach to digital technologies in health care delivery among mothers, children and adolescents
Background:Healthcare outcomes in child, adolescent and maternal in Tanzania are poor, and mostly characterised by fragmentary service provision. In...
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Global synergistic actions to improve brain health for human development
The global burden of neurological disorders is substantial and increasing, especially in low-resource settings. The current increased global interest...
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How should implementation of the human right to health be assessed? A sco** review of the public health literature from 2000 to 2021
The human right to health is a critical legal tool to achieve health justice, and universal health coverage is included among the Sustainable...
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Meeting the reproductive health needs of female sex workers in Côte d’Ivoire: protecting the human right to dignified health
The sexual and reproductive health needs of female sex workers (FSW) are often understudied and underserved in the context of HIV-related research in...
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Adapting group care to the postpartum period using a human-centered design approach in Malawi
BackgroundResponsive and resilient strategies to reduce high rates of maternal and infant mortality and clinician shortages are needed in low- and...
