Legal Standards
Instructions Please submit a paper answering each of the following questions: 1. What is the legal basis for (ie legal sources of) the right to health? (100 words max) 2. What is meant by ‘core minimum obligations’ and ‘progressive realisation’ under the right to health? (100 words max) 3. “The right to health contains entitlements and freedoms” Discuss this statement (200 words max) 4. Explain, in your own words, what the AAAQ framework includes and what it is intended to assess. (200 words max) 5. In your view, is the AAAQ framework useful for the above purpose? Why, why not? (200 words max) You must make reference to the course literature to support your answers. Accurate and consistent referencing is essential. Plagiarism will result in a U grade Format Submit your answers Word format, in 12 point font and 1.5 spaced. Not single spaced, please (it is difficult to read) Learning objectives for this assignment describe the content of the main international human rights declarations and their relationship to public health and explain the right to health as a legal standard lecture 1 > lecture 2 > https://youtu.be/3zAv4U3KBTE Lecture 3 > https://youtu.be/msvvV8_duQ0 Essential reading About 40 pages International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, in particular Articles 2, 4, 12 (Links to an external site.) Constitution of the World Health Organization, Preamble and Article 1 (Links to an external site.) Tobin J. & Barrett D. (2020) ‘The Right to Health and Health-Related Human Rights’, in Meier B. & Gostin L. (eds) Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights Ch. 3 UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No 14 on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, UN Doc No E/C.12/2000/4, 11 August 2000 (Available in Course literature