HR-44503 credit hours

Human Rights Approaches to Health

Human Rights · 3 hrs Seminar/Discussion

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HR-4450 prerequisites

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HR-2100International Human Rights Law in Context
HR-2200History of Human Rights in Canada

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Description

This course identifies, locates, and examines the complicated intersection between human rights and health in law, policy, and lived reality. Taught from a multi-disciplinary framework, the course analyzes the content, justiciability and realization of international right to health provisions and the meaning of these provisions in different cultural and socio-economic contexts. Through contemporary debates and case studies, the course examines the interaction between various human rights approaches (cultural rights, right to development, environmental rights, women's rights, Indigenous rights) and health approaches (public health, global health, environmental health, social determinants of health).

Requisite courses

HR-2100 or HR-2200 [prerequisite(s)].

Seminar

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