[afro-nets] Health and Human Rights journal issue: Social conditions of health: Convergences and disjunctures

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Health and Human rights: An International Journal

Volume 12 Number 2 (2010)

Theme: “Social conditions of health: Convergences and disjunctures”

CONTENTS

Editorial

1–2: Collaborative imperatives, elusive dialogues

Alicia Ely Yamin and Alec Irwin

[pdf <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/364/555&gt;\]
[html<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/364/554&gt;
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Critical Concepts Section [Alicia Ely Yamin, Executive Editor]

3–16: The right to sutures: Social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice

Sridhar Venkatapuram, Ruth Bell, and Michael Marmot

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/365&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/365/558&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/365/557&gt;\]

17–30: The social determinants of health, health equity, and human rights

Audrey R. Chapman

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/366&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/366/561&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/366/560&gt;\]

31–46: Social conditions, health equity, and human rights

Paula Braveman

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/367&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/367/564&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/367/563&gt;\]

Health and Human Rights in Practice Section [Arlan Fuller and Evan Lyon, Executive Editors]

49–59: Realizing human rights-based approaches for action on the social determinants of health

Kumanan Rasanathan, Johanna Norenhag, and Nicole Valentine

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/368&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/368/566&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/368/565&gt;\]

61–72: Human rights assessment in Parc Jean Marie Vincent, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Kimberly A. Cullen and Louise C. Ivers

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/369&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/369/569&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/369/568&gt;\]

73–87: Correlates of violence in Guinea’s Maison Centrale Prison: A statistical approach in documenting human rights abuses

Ronald E. Osborn

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/370&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/370/572&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/370/571&gt;\]

89–100: Developing human rights-based strategies to improve health among
female sex workers in

Rwanda

Agnès Binagwaho, Mawuena Agbonyitor, Aimable Mwananawe, Placidie Mugwaneza,
Alec Irwin, and Corine Karema

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/371&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/371/575&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/371/574&gt;\]

101–117: Nurses’ impoliteness as an impediment to patients’ rights in
selected Kenyan hospitals

Benson Oduor Ojwang, Emily Atieno Ogutu, and Peter Maina Matu

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/372&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/372/578&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/372/577&gt;\]

119–134: Human rights consequences of mandatory HIV screening policy of newcomers to Canada

Laura M. Bisaillon

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/373&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/373/581&gt;\]
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135–147: Sex trafficking and health care in Metro Manila: Identifying social determinants to inform an effective health system response

Timothy P. Williams, Elaine J. Alpert, Roy Ahn, Elizabeth Cafferty, Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Nadya Wolferstan, Judith Palmer Castor, Anita M. McGahan, and Thomas F. Burke

[abstract <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/374&gt;\]
[pdf<http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/374/584&gt;\]
[html <http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/374/583&gt;\]

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