A special preview of the next issue of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, a theme issue on “Participation,” is now available, with select articles online, at http://www.hhrjournal.org/.
This preview of Volume 11 Number 1 includes an interview with Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, as well as Critical Concepts articles covering participation as it relates to health in countries including Indonesia, Guatemala, and Palestine.
The full table of contents, including an exciting array of essays on both “Critical Concepts” and “Health and Human Rights in Practice,” is provided below. Be sure to visit the Health and Human Rights website this fall to view the entire issue.
The journal is also accepting submissions for a forthcoming theme issue on ”‘International assistance and cooperation’ and Health and Human Rights Obligations Beyond Borders” (due October 15, 2009). Additional submissions information can be found at: http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/about/submissions.
Articles currently available:
The power of community in advancing the right to health: A conversation with Anand Grover [PDF, HTML]
Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health [PDF, HTML] by Alicia Ely Yamin
Health through people’s empowerment: A rights-based approach to participation [PDF, HTML] by Pol De Vos, Wim De Ceukelaire, Geraldine Malaise, Dennis Pérez, Pierre Lefèvre, and Patrick Van der Stuyft
Social participation within a context of political violence: Implications for the promotion and exercise of the right to health in Guatemala [PDF, HTML] by Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, and Denise Phé Funchal
Participation and the right to health: Lessons from Indonesia [PDF, HTML]
Sam Foster Halabi
See below for a list of additional articles that will be included in the full issue.
A card before you leave: Participation and mental health in Northern Ireland, by Frank V. McMillan, Nicola Browne, Stephanie Green, and Dessie Donnelly
Witnesses to hunger: Participation though photovoice to ensure the right to food, by Mariana Chilton, Jenny Rabinowich, Christina Council, and Jennifer Breaux
Unexpected agency: Participation as a bargaining chip for the poor, by Clara Rubincam and Scott Naysmith
HIV/AIDS in Cuba: A rights-based analysis, by Tim Anderson
Global goes local: Integrating human rights principles into a county health care reform project, by Roslyn Solomon