Public Health and Human Rights

Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and international health, director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and associate director of the Center for Global Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. H. F. Pizer is the cofounder and principal of Health Care Strategies, Inc., and author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen medical books.

• Foreword, by Leonard S. RubensteinPrefaceContributorsList of AcronymsIntroduction: Human Rights and the Health of PopulationsPart I: Cases and Contexts1. Health and Human Rights in the Midst of a Drug War: The Thai Drug Uses' Network2. The Impact of Human Rights Violations on Health among Internally Displaced Persons in Conflict Zones: Burma3. Consequances of a Stalled Response: Iatrogenic Epidemic among Blood Donors in Central China4. Women's Health and Women's Rights: Selling Sex in Moscow5. Reducing Harm in Prisons: Lessons from the United States and WorldwidePart II: Methods6. using Molecular Tools to Track Epidemics and Investigate Human Rights and Disease Interactions7. Documenting the Effects of Trafficking in Women8. Documenting Sexual Violence among Internally Displaced Women: Sierra Leone9. The Crime of Genocide: Darfur10. Public Health Research in a Human Rights Crisis: The Effects of the Thai "War on Drugs"11. Maps in the Sand: Investigating Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Darfur12. Civil Conflict and Health Infromation: The Democratis Republic of CongoPart III: Policy13. From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil14. Seeing Double: Mapping Contradictions in HIV Prevention and Illicit Drug Policy Worldwide15. Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS pandemic16. Gender and Sexual Health Rights: Burma17. Advocacy Strategies for Affording the Right to HealthIndex

Many of the case studies are powerful and hopeful... Recommended. Choice 2008 The strength of the book is the authors' and editors' insistence on 'evidence-based approaches' to abuse and harm. They explain why acquiring reliable evidence about the effects on health of abuses of human rights requires changing principles and methods that researchers in industrial countries take for granted. -- Daniel M. Fox, PhD JAMA 2008 The message of this book is clear... A rights-based analysis of our public health policies is a requirement of the times in which we live. -- William M. Valenti AIDS Reader 2008 The book is well constructed and provides insights into how to approach public health programs in unique situations where human rights violations constrain public health workers' ability to assist populations at risk... The examples in this book provide a set of tools to consider when we find ourselves in unique situations. -- Maryn Elizabeth Torner Doody's Review Service 2008 A good resource for students. It is a quick and interesting read. -- Catherine G. Chalin Canadian Journal of Public Health 2008 This engaging and important book is likely to interest a broad range of readers. -- Steven S. Coughlin European Journal of Public Health 2008 Valuable and enlightening... Mental health specialists will find here much to reflect about. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2008 A good addition to the burgeoning literature on global health, and I would recommend it strongly to practitioners. -- Nana K. Poku Development in Practice 2008 The individual case studies are fascinating, and provide insight into the challenges of working in oppressive and dangerous environments. -- Kate van Dooren Critical Public Health 2008 Well researched and timely, and cites well-documented evidence. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010