Health Care The Fourth Inaliniable Human Right.
...Fossa-Andersen
April 1, 2005
HUMN 432
Contents
Introduction
Thesis Statement
Healthcare Statistics
What is Adequate Health and who is deserves the right to receive it?
Racism and Discrimination in Healthcare
Conclusion
Human Rights and Health
References and Works Cited
Introduction
Throughout the world, in countries rich and poor, people have no access to basic physical and mental healthcare nor to immunizations from infectious disease. Some people have no access because they lack the resources to buy and the state does not provide it. Others may be able to afford healthcare but because there are no services available in their communities they must do without it.
In some countries because of discrimination or social stigmas such as a person¡¦s status as a prisoner, refugee, immigrant or a member of a lower class or caste they are deprived of this basic human right. However all people should have access to affordable universal healthcare. In a nation of such wealth and abundance, rights and freedoms, there is no justification for an individual to be without healthcare.
The ¡§right to health¡¨ extends to all things which promote health and well-being and prevent illness and disease, not just access to medical care. This includes, among many others, the right to education, food and shelter, to freedom from discrimination and persecution, to information, and to the benefits of science.
Every woman, man, and child has the human right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, without discrimination of any kind. Enjoyment of human right to health, is vital to all aspects of a person¡¦s life and well-being, and is crucial to the realization of many other fundamental human rights and freedoms. The United States is the only industrialized country in the world in which healthcare is not a right of...
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