Public health & human rights
Subtitle: evidence-based approaches
By: edited by Chris Beyrer and H.F. Pizer.
Contributors: Beyrer, Chris.; Pizer, Hank.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780801886461; 9780801886478
Subjects: Health Policy; Health Care Reform; Human Rights; Public Health; Social medicine -- Cross-cultural studies; Human rights -- Health aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Public health -- Cross-cultural studies; Health -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Other titles: Public health and human rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health and human rights in the midst of a drug war: the Thai drug users' network / Thomas Kerr ... [et al.]; title: The impact of human rights violations on health among internally displaced persons in conflict zones: Burma / Thomas J. Lee ... [et al.]; title: Consequences of a stalled response: iatrogenic epidemic among blood donors in central China / Wan Yanhai and Li Xiaorong; title: Women's health and women's rights: selling sex in Moscow / Julie Stachowiak and Alena Peryshkina; title: Reducing harm in prisons: lessons from the United States and worldwide / Julie Samia Mair; title: Using molecular tools to track epidemics and investigate human rights and disease interactions / Chris Beyrer; title: Documenting the effects of trafficking in women / Cathy Zimmerman and Charlotte Watts; title: Documenting sexual violence among internally displaced women: Sierra Leone / Chen Reis; title: The crime of genocide: Darfur / Jennifer Leaning; title: Public health research in a human rights crisis: the effects of the Thai "war on drugs" / Susan Sherman, Apinun Aramrattana, and David Celentano; title: Maps in the sand: investigating health and human rights in Afghanistan and Darfur / Lynn Lawry; title: Civil conflict and health information: The democratic Republic of Congo / Chris Beyrer ... [et al.]; title: From human rights principles to public health practice: HIV/AIDS policy in Brazil / Varun Gauri, Chris Beyrer, and Denise Vaillancourt; title: Seeing double: mapping contradictions in HIV prevention and illicit drug policy worldwide / Daniel Wolfe and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch; title: Human rights and public health ethics responding to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic / Jonathan Cohen, Nancy Kass, and Chris Beyrer; title: Gender and sexual health rights: Burma / Voravit Suwanvanichkij ... [et al.]; title: Advocacy strategies for affording the right to health / Holly Burkhalter.