scholarly journals BARRIERS TO ACCESS HEALTHCARE FOR MIDDLE AMERICAN MIGRANTS DURING TRANSIT IN MEXICO

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yessica Elizabeth Llanes García ◽  
Tuur Ghys
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Seguro Popular ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Barriers To Healthcare ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Access

This paper draws attention to a little discussed aspect of access to healthcare for the hundreds of thousands of migrants that transit through Mexico to reach the United States, which in theory under the old system was covered via Seguro Popular. To inform future debates on the right to health of migrants, this paper analyses semi structured interviews of thirty-one transit migrants in Monterrey to understand the different barriers to healthcare that migrants faced under the former system. The results cover access to information, economic access, physical access, and discrimination. The paper concludes that these barriers are significant, with access to information standing out as the largest challenge. Our policy recommendations mainly center around improving the (information) outreach to migrants.

scholarly journals BARRIERS TO ACCESS HEALTHCARE FOR MIDDLE AMERICAN MIGRANTS DURING TRANSIT IN MEXICO

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yessica Elizabeth Llanes García ◽  
Tuur Ghys
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Seguro Popular ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Barriers To Healthcare ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Access

This paper draws attention to a little discussed aspect of access to healthcare for the hundreds of thousands of migrants that transit through Mexico to reach the United States, which in theory under the old system was covered via Seguro Popular. To inform future debates on the right to health of migrants, this paper analyses semi structured interviews of thirty-one transit migrants in Monterrey to understand the different barriers to healthcare that migrants faced under the former system. The results cover access to information, economic access, physical access, and discrimination. The paper concludes that these barriers are significant, with access to information standing out as the largest challenge. Our policy recommendations mainly center around improving the (information) outreach to migrants.

scholarly journals The right to medical care and its economic consequences: an American dilemma

1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-327
Author(s):  
José Duarte de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Right

The concepts of "rights" and of "right to health care" including its evolution in modern times are discussed. The consequences of implementing this right are discussed in economic terms, regarding the situation in the United States of America. A discussion is also included on the limitations of the role of Health Insurance as a measure to solve the problem of providing health care for all individuals.

scholarly journals The Legal Framework and Barriers to Access to Environmental Information in Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-172
Author(s):  
Abdulkader Mohammed Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

Information plays a vital role, both in terms of its importance for a democratic order and as a prerequisite for public participation. Many countries have made provisions for access to information in their respective constitutions. The FDRE Constitution explicitly provides that everyone has the right to seek and receive information. The Freedom of Mass Media and Access to Information Proclamation –which entered into force in 2008– gives effect to this Constitutional guarantee. Moreover, the number of laws on different environmental issues is on the rise, and the same could be said of the multilateral environmental agreements that Ethiopia has ratified. Many of the laws incorporate the right of the public to access environmental information held by public bodies. Despite the existing legal framework, there are still notable barriers to access to environmental information. By analyzing the relevant laws, the aim of this article is to contribute to the dialogue on the constitutional right of access to information with particular emphasis on the legal framework on, and the barriers to, access to environmental information within the meaning of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration.

scholarly journals The logic of the slave patrol: the fantasy of black predatory violence and the use of force by the police

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Government ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Murder Trial ◽  
The Right ◽  
Predatory Violence ◽  
The City

Abstract The background context for this study is the relationship between the right to bear arms and the role of policing in the United States. The fact that the second amendment guarantees the right to bear arms and the correlative right to form “a well-regulated militia” have long been central to the scholarly understanding of the role of guns in American society. Yet few social scientific studies have taken the friction between militias and the burgeoning police departments of the 1800s as a point of departure for present-day debates about the police’s use of force. For the early part of US history, many citizens feared that the police would attempt to supplant militias. In some southern cities, like New Orleans, residents argued that if the city government was going to let the police patrol the city, they should do so without guns. It was the threat of slave uprisings that ended the conflict between militias and the police. A major implication of this study is that rooting the contemporary understanding of police violence in early debates about the police’s use of force can help social scientists better understand how policing is understood and experienced today. Indeed, the African Americans interviewed for this study view the gun in the hands of a police officer as a technology that is rooted in the slave patrol. This is because it is the descendants of enslaved people who are disproportionately subject to police shootings. The article demonstrates this point by exploring a 2014 police shooting. The shooting of Laquan McDonald garnered national attention when, on October 20, 2014, Chicago police Officer, Jason Van Dyke, shot the 17-year-old Black teenager 16 times. The methods employed in this study include: archival data on the early use of force debate, discourse analysis of court testimony from Van Dyke’s 2018 first degree murder trial, and semi-structured interviews with Chicago residents who discuss this case. Ultimately, this study finds that in the McDonald shooting, the gun helps to reproduce the fantasy of Black predatory violence that is rooted in slavery.

On the Need for an Association for Vaccinated Person’s Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 089011712110596
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Harm To Others ◽  
The Right

COVID-19 has been more difficult to contain in the United States than in other countries due, in part, to our nation’s rootedness in preserving individual freedoms, sometimes in defiance of the need for social accountability for health. With growing evidence that anti-vaccination proponents are increasingly organized, funded, and influential, this editorial argues that the right to health should transcend individual freedoms that have a likely probability of spreading harm to others. An association for vaccinated person’s rights, much like ANSR, an association for non-smokers rights, may be needed to counter anti-vaccination rights organizers. Advancing a goal of mostly “vaccinated and fully immunized populations’ would make members of such a group ‘VIP-ers.’”

scholarly journals Child care and health rights: perspectives of adolescent mothers

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 733-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaqueline Silva Santos ◽  
Raquel Dully Andrade ◽  
Juliana Coelho Pina ◽  
Maria de La Ó Ramallo Veríssimo ◽  
Anna Maria Chiesa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Child Advocacy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
The Right

AbstractOBJECTIVETo analyze child health care and the defense of their rights from the perspective of adolescent mothers.METHODSAn exploratory study with qualitative thematic analysis of data, based on conceptual aspects of care and the right to health, from semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescent mothers ascribed by Family Health teams.RESULTSMaternal reports indicate that child health care requires responsibility and protection, with health practices that promote child advocacy. Gaps in assistance which preclude the full guarantee of the right to child health care were also highlighted.CONCLUSIONThe right to health care assumed different meanings, and the forms to guarantee them were linked to individual behavior in detriment to broader actions that consider health as a social product, connected to the guarantee of other fundamental rights.

Denying the Right to Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Illingworth ◽  
Wendy E. Parmet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Status ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
Universal Health

Many nations claim to respect the right to health, which requires states to provide access to necessary health care without discrimination of any kind. Nevertheless, most states that purport to recognize the right to health discriminate against some classes of newcomers, especially unauthorized immigrants. This chapter reviews the status of immigrants’ right to health under international law and then turns to an examination of immigrants’ access to health insurance in Canada and the European Union. The chapter demonstrates that even in nations that are widely believed to have universal health care systems, many classes of immigrants are left without access to the means to pay for needed health care. As in the United States, these exclusions impact the health of newcomers and natives alike.

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