The right to health: shifting priorities from healthcare to prevention

Brigit Toebes and Aart Hendriks

Chapter 2 in Research Handbook on Human Rights Law and Health, 2025, pp 42-56 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores how the right to health may serve as a normative umbrella in settings of healthcare scarcity. It begins with the premise that the right to health encompasses not only a right to healthcare services but also a right to the underlying or socioeconomic determinants of health. Based on this, governments and other responsible stakeholders should prioritise socioeconomic well-being, public health, and prevention. Against the backdrop of this right to health framework, this chapter examines the potential of healthcare system transformations, social determinants, public health and prevention, and digitalisation. In relation to this, it considers the implications of these steps for individual rights, including privacy and freedom of movement.

Keywords: Right to health; Public health; Prevention; Scarcity; Transforming healthcare; Digitalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803928029
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