2. Diseases and disasters
loom large as causes of
death and disability.
Introduction
Around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.
4. The burning of fossil fuels is simultaneously
driving the climate crisis and taking away
our right to breathe clean air.
5. • WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has found that at
least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their
constitution.
• Yet countries are not passing and
putting into practice laws to ensure
their populations are entitled
to access health services.
✔ This underpins the fact that in 2021
6. To address these types of challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is
7. Access to health services Education
Safe drinking water
Good nutrition
Quality housing
Decent working and environmental
conditions
Freedom from Discrimination
This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of
everyone, everywhere to have access to…………….
8. What is Health
• Health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social wellbeing and not
merely the absence of diseases or
infirmity
Right to health
The right to health includes entitlements,
such as the right to control one’s health,
informed consent, bodily integrity, and
participation in health-related decision-
making. It also includes freedoms, like
freedom from torture, ill-treatment and
harmful practices.
9. The right to health is closely related to and dependent on the realization of other human rights, including the rights to life,
food, housing, work, education, privacy, access to information, freedom from torture and the freedoms of association,
assembly and movement.
Relation and Dependence
The right to health is closely
related to and dependent on
the realization of other
human rights, including the
rights to life, food, housing,
work, education, privacy,
access to information,
freedom from torture and the
freedoms of association,
assembly and movement.
10. minatory access to quality, timely and appropriate health services and systems
erminants of health.
11. Th
ABCs of what it will take to
deliver the
right to health.
The FIVE A’s which are the core components of the Right to Health
12. Availability
Refers to the need for a sufficient quantity of
functioning health facilities, goods and
services for all.
13. ‘Accessibility’
requires that health facilities, goods, and services must be accessible to everyone
and has four dimensions
Physical accessibility
Non discrimination
14. Information accessibility
This is particularly important for persons
with disabilities who often encounter
significant barriers to health related to
the inaccessibility of
services, facilities and health information.
Economic accessibility
15. Acceptability relates to respect for medical ethics, culturally appropriate, and sensitivity to gender.
Acceptability requires that health facilities,
goods, services and programmes are
people-centred and cater to the specific
needs of diverse population groups and in
accordance with international standards of
medical ethics for confidentiality and
informed consent.
16. •Individuals have the right to be fully informed about any treatment,
intervention or any other health services that they undergo.
20. Home based ORS Impregnation of Bednets
Appropriate Technology
21. Digital health technology - Aims to boost our health and wellbeing, or to improve health systems.
Software to help track symptoms, online tools to
diagnose conditions, and programmes that analyse
data from medical devices such as blood pressure
monitors
Includes smartphone apps, wearable
devices (such as step trackers), and
platforms that provide remote healthcare
(telehealth).
26. Another pillar is Quality of Care
Why quality matters?
✔ Each year, between 5.7 and 8.4
million people are dying due to poor
quality care in low- and middle-income
countries, counting for up to 15 percent
of overall deaths in these countries.
✔ Lost productivity due to poor quality
care in these countries is estimated
around $1.4 to $1.6 trillion per year.
- Quality of health care services is
critical for achieving effective universal
health coverage.
27.
28.
29. ❑ Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights
❑ Adolescent Health
❑ Maternal and Child Health
❑ Right to Traditional Medicines
❑ Right to Safe drinking water
❑ Right to Sanitation
❑ Right to Clean Air
❑ Right to Good nutrition
❑ Right to Housing
❑ Right to Decent Working Conditions
❑ Freedom from violence, discrimination and inequality
Now, let us discuss
various rights
which we should
champion for a
better health
30.
31. End virginity testing
Virginity testing, also called “two-finger testing”, is unscientific, harmful, and
a violation of women and girls’ human rights
37. Maternal Health
•Is a rights issue.
- Requires empowerment and
respect for the rights of women
and girls and the provision of a
full range of reproductive
health services.
Yr
2022
41. Every year over 25 million unsafe abortions take place and up
to 37,000 women die. Evidence shows that restricting access
to abortion does not reduce the number of abortions that
occur.
42. Institutionalization of children
Placing a child is in a facility outside of their
home, often due to a violation of their rights or
social risk and can include children with
emotional or physical disabilities, or children
who are at risk of abandonment or orphans.
How it affects children
Mental Harm
44. Prevention through family centered approach
Support families and
prevent unnecessary
family–child separation Provision of maternity parenteral and
child care leave for working parents
53. 4.43 lakh villages have declared themselves ODF Plus,
- a significant step towards achieving the
SBM-G phase II goals by 2024-25. (PIB – 23 sep 2023)
63. National Food Security Act
(NFSA)
Covers over 80 crore people
Efforts to curb hunger and ensure food security for
people through the Public Distribution System
(PDS) which includes
- 35 kg of foodgrains per month to households
eligible under Antyodaya Anna Yojana
(AAY)(Covearge 75% - Rural and 50% - Urban)
- 5 kg of foodgrains per person per month to
Priority Households (PHH) beneficiaries at a
subsidised cost of Rs. 2 per kg of wheat and Rs. 3
per kg of rice.
73. Social, cultural, structural or financial, a
rights-based approach means identifying
disadvantage, and breaking down
barriers related to access, affordability,
quality, or availability of healthcare services.
74.
75. • By exposing them to
infection
• Triggering psychological
trauma
• By discouraging people
from seeking much-
needed healthcare
Causes mental and physical
Harm