For a Human Rights Approach to Health and Housing: Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands

Mila Rosenthal

Chapter 15 in Learning from the World, 2014, pp 215-226 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, I examine how the United States ranks so low on key indicators of economic and social development compared with other wealthy countries, and consider how the overall approach of the US coincides with its history of resistance to international obligations on human rights. Looking at inequality and inequity in health and housing in the United States, I will point to examples from other countries where public policy built on a rights-based framework of governmental responsibility results in significantly better outcomes for a larger proportion of the population, and ask whether American policy can continue to resist looking outward for solutions to the grave challenges within.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Social Housing; Housing Association; Income Disparity; Special Rapporteur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137372130_15

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