Abstract
Conflict and health: a paradigm shift in global health and human rights
Highlights
The 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights [1] is one such imagining, and it is far from being fully realized. The day before it was signed in Paris, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide [2] was passed
Health professionals around the world have been participating in the emerging discipline of health and human rights [4]
The legal complexities of health and human rights principles, and poorly formulated evidence in advancing the cause of global health, have reduced human rights arguments to lofty ideals that are widely quoted in academic circles but seldom implemented
Summary
Published: 1 March 2007 Conflict and Health 2007, 1:1 doi:10.1186/1752-1505-1-1 The 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights [1] is one such imagining, and it is far from being fully realized. Health professionals around the world have been participating in the emerging discipline of health and human rights [4]. They have attempted to tackle some of these issues through advocacy and participation in global health challenges such as access to medicines for HIV and other neglected diseases [5].
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