The Assessment of the Right to Health and Health Care at the country level: A People's Health Movement Guide
This assessment guide has been developed to focus on government responsibilities concerning the right to health and health care. By using this guide, the status of the right to health and health care can be evaluated in a certain country.
The assessment guide provides a five step process:
- Step 1: What are your government's commitments?
- Step 2: Are your government's policies appropriate to fullfill these obligations?
- Step 3: Is the health system of your country adequately implementing interventions to realise the right to health and health care for all?
- Step 4: Does the health status of different social groups and the population as a whole reflect a progression in their right to health and health care?
- Step 5: What does the denial or fulfillment of the Right to Health in your country mean in practice?
After of having completed these steps and gathered information, the last part of the guide is to form recommendations to improve government health policy. This part provides detailed guidelines on how to do this by focusing on questions such as which violiations to prioritise, who to involve in policy discussions and to whom lobbying efforts should be directed.
This assessment tool is designed for the People's Health Movement (PHM) national circles, NGO's, health organisations and human rights organisations that will be participating in the PHM campaign.
Source(s):
| Language | Format | Source |
|---|---|---|
| English | PDF document | click here to view/download |
| Portuguese | Word document | click here to view/download |
| Spanish | Word document | click here to view/download |
| French | Word document | click here to view/download |