International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 13 Issue 1

Editorial

Theo Gavrielides

Bridging human rights and social determinants of health: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

Juan Smart, Alejandra Letelier

The purpose of this paper is to do a systematic assessment and testing of identified human rights norms alongside social determinant approaches in relation to identified health…

“Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon

Joana Catela

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the mental health of two immigrants supported by a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of Lisbon. The ethnography sets out the…

“In these streets”: the saliency of place in an alternative black mental health resource centre

John Wainwright, Mick McKeown, Malcolm Kinney

The purpose of this paper is to explore experiences of survivors of the mental health system regularly attending a mental health resource centre predominantly but not exclusively…

Have the poor been considered in the Health Sector Evolution Plan? A qualitative study of the Iranian health system

Manal Etemadi, Kioomars Ashtarian, Nader Ganji, Hannaneh Mohammadi Kangarani, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji

Reducing health inequalities between the poor and the rich is one of the challenges that the Iranian healthcare sector is facing. One of the goals of the Iranian Government in the…

Social networks and their effects on the choice of contraceptive use and method in Bangladesh

Md Shahidul Islam

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of social networks on contraceptive adoption in Bangladesh.

Correlation between human rights promotion and health protection: a cross country analysis

Sedef Akgungor, Kamiar Alaei, Weng-Fong Chao, Alexandra Harrington, Arash Alaei

The purpose of this paper is to explore the correlation among health outcomes, and civil and political rights (CPR) and also economic, social and cultural rights.