ABOUT THE BOOK

Health and well-being are deeply personal matters in one sense but there is a huge social purpose and significance in that. As human beings, our health and the health of those we care about is a matter of regular concern. Irrespective of our age, gender, socio-economic or ethnic background, our health is our most basic and essential asset.

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights also mentioned health as part of the right to an adequate standard of living (art. 25). The right to health was again recognized as a human right in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Present book surveys, analyses and seeks to interpret the dynamic evolution and culmination of the debate on health in our country and also in a global sense.

Through a comprehensive analysis of all major developments in the health sector, the book attempts to track and decipher the domain of global health in as comprehensive a way as possible and presents theories, arguments, debates, statistics, and conventions. Also, the narrative raises relevant questions revolving around the current state of the human right to health and increases the reader's awareness of the necessity of realizing the human right to health in our world. With not one disease at the centre of the book, the reader gets a clear idea of the tremendous impact of this infectious disease on the progressive realization of the human right to health and its relevance in our time. It is argued that the economic and institutional barriers to the fulfilment of the human right to the highest attainable standard of health for all is a real challenge and there are immense potential benefits of investment in human health. This book operates at a multidisciplinary level and would prove to be helpful for students of Law, Sociology, anthropology, psychology and all those interested in the field of Public Health.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Anu is LLB, LLM, PhD in Law and also a Faculty of Law in the Law Faculty of Delhi University. She has been teaching labour laws and administrative laws for the past 15 years. She has authored books centring on Women and Child Health, Labour Laws and women empowerment. She is supervising research at the LLM and PhD in the University. Her research articles in the National and International journals have a widespread following. She has represented the country at various international forums and promoted the cause of constitutionalism and women led leadership. Dr Anu has been the convener of Gender Sensitisation committee of University and has initiated several important campaigns.