Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populationsfrom repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict. Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-based public health research. Part III confronts current policy approachessuch as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugsand offers recommendations for future programs and strategies. Author InformationChris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and international health, director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and associate director of the Center for Global Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. H. F. Pizer is the cofounder and principal of Health Care Strategies, Inc., and author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen medical books. Reviews''A necessary and timely contribution for the public health and for the human rights audience. It can be the 'bible' of approaching the most vulnerable of our world's population, including those affected by HIV/AIDS, genocide, intravenous drug use, trafficking, and gender-specific abuse.''Hilarie Cranmer, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health''This book is a real contribution for those working to bring health and dignity to communities in need. We have long understood that the violation of the human rights of the poor and marginalized had grave implications for their health and well-being. Now we have a tool kit for investigating those relationships and, more importantly, for doing something about them to improve both human health and human rights.''Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate
Introduction. Human Rights and the Health of Populations by Chris Beyrer 1 1 Health and Human Rights in the Midst of a Drug War: The Thai Drug Users' Network by Thomas Kerr and Karyn Kaplan and Paisan Suwannawong and Evan Wood 11 2 The Impact of Human Rights Violations on Health among Internally Displaced Persons in Conflict Zones: Burma by Thomas J. Lee and Luke C. Mullany and Adam K. Richards and Cynthia Maung and Htee Moo and Mahn Mahn 33 3 Consequences of a Stalled Response: Iatrogenic Epidemic among Blood Donors in Central China by Wan Yanhai and Li Xiaorong 65 4 Women's Health and Women's Rights: Selling Sex in Moscow by Julie Stachowiak and Alena Peryshkina 88 5 Reducing Harm in Prisons: Lessons from the United States and Worldwide by Julie Samia Mair 105 6 Using Molecular Tools to Track Epidemics and Investigate Human Rights and Disease Interactions by Chris Beyrer 127 7 Documenting the Effects of Trafficking in Women by Cathy Zimmerman and Charlotte Watts 143 8 Documenting Sexual Violence among Internally Displaced Women: Sierra Leone by Chen Reis 177 9 The Crime of Genocide: Darfur by Jennifer Leaning 202 10 Public Health Research in a Human Rights Crisis: The Effects of the Thai ''War on Drugs'' by Susan Sherman and Aplnun Aramrattana and David Celentano 222 11 Maps in the Sand: Investigating Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Darfur by Lynn Lawry 243 12 Civil Conflict and Health Information: The Democratic Republic of Congo by Chris Beyrer and Arpi Terzian and Sara Lowther and John A. Zambrano and Noya Galai and Mwandagalirwa Kashamuka Melchior 268 13 From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil by Varun Gauri and Chris Beyrer and Denise Vaillancourt 289 14 Seeing Double: Mapping Contradictions in HIV Prevention and Illicit Drug Policy Worldwide by Daniel Wolfe and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch 330 15 Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic by Jonathan Cohen and Nancy Kass and Chris Beyrer 362 More...
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