Denial of Health

Violation Types
Legal elements
  • Denial of Health: A person has been restricted of their right to health
  • Denial of Health: A public official was in some way responsible for or involved in the violation
Constituting Acts
  • Denial of Health: Lack of availability or access to medical care, inclusive of mental, physical, maternal, and reproductive
  • Denial of Health: Lack of drinking water
  • Denial of Health: Lack of food
  • Denial of Health: Lack of means to maintain personal hygiene
  • Denial of Health: Lack of sanitation
Explainer

The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is an inclusive right extending not only to timely and appropriate health care but also to the underlying determinants of health, such as access to safe and water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition and housing, healthy occupational and environmental conditions, and access to health-related education and information, including on sexual and reproductive health.

Legal instruments