Violation of Right to Health
Violation Types- Legal elements
- Violation of Right to Health: A person has been restricted of their right to health
- Violation of Right to Health: A public official was in some way responsible for or involved in the violation
- Constituting Acts
- Violation of Right to Health: Failure to provide nutritionally adequate food, or the incorporation of inedible substances into food
- Violation of Right to Health: Lack of adequate availability or access to medical care, inclusive of mental, physical, maternal, and reproductive care (including STD)
- Violation of Right to Health: Lack of drinking water
- Violation of Right to Health: Lack of means to maintain personal hygiene
- Violation of Right to 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
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