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This volume draws together significant articles addressing challenges of applying human rights to promote health in settings ranging from the local to the global. Essays explore determinants of ill-health, including poverty, gender, violence and stigma, examine ways of promoting self-determination in health, and show how courts have applied rights to improve access to health services.

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Rebecca J. Cook is Professor in the Department of Law, University of Toronto, Canada. Charles G. Ngwena is Professor in the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Davidson R. Gwatkin, Abbas Bhuiya, Cesar G. Victora, Lesley Doyal, N.M. Naylor, Arvind Narrain, Scott Burris, Alicia Ely Yamin, Leslie London, L.M. Kelly, Michael Kirby, Paul Hunt, Judith Mesquita, Lance Gable, Javier Vasquez, Lawrence O. Gostin, Heidi V. Jimenez, Erin Nelson, Eileen V Fegan, Rachel Rebouche, Charles Ngwena, B.M. Dickens, R.J. Cook, K. Syrett, Colleen M. Flood, Joanna Manning, Ron Paterson, Lisa Forman, Enrique Gonzalez MacDowell, Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove, Amartya Sen, Paula Braveman, Sofia Gruskin, Madison Powers, Norman Daniels, J. Bryant, R.A. Castano, O.G. Dantes, K.S. Khan, S. Pannarunothai, L.P. Freedman, Allen Buchanan, Matthew Decamp, Allyn L. Taylor, Chris Beyrer, Audrey R. Chapman, Zita Lazzarini.

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