The Pluralist Right to Health Care : : A Framework and Case Study / / Michael DaSilva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: DaSilva, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 2 b&w tables

Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not fit easily into the traditional "claim right" model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care addresses this incongruity between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is both philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, The Pluralist Right to Health Care provides crucial insight into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Chapter One, Introduction -- PART I. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Right to Health Care -- Chapter Two. Health Rights: A Taxonomy -- Chapter Three. The Case for a Pluralist Conception of the Right to Health Care -- Chapter Four. The Pluralist Right to Health Care and International Human Rights Law -- Appendix 1. A (Non-Exhaustive)1 List of Key Sources for Identifying the International Right to Health Care -- Chapter Five. Metrics for Realization of the Right to Health Care -- Appendix 2. Metrics for Comparative Analysis of Right to Health Care Implementation -- PART II. The Right to Health Care in Canada: A Case Study in Realization -- Chapter Six. The Mainstream Canadian Health Care System and the Pluralist Right to Health Care -- Chapter Seven. Vulnerable Populations in Canada and the Pluralist Right to Health Care -- Chapter Eight. Tools for Better Realizing the Pluralist Right to Health Care in Canada -- CONCLUSION. Next Steps -- Chapter Nine. Concluding Thoughts and the Path(s) Forward -- Index