The Challenges to Human Security in the Right to Health and Public Health

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Science Research Branch,

2 Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch,

3 Visiting Professor, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch

4 PhD student of Law, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch

Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges threatening health and public health by describing and explaining human security within the framework of the right to public health. The right to public health that refers to the physical and mental illness in human societies and public health and embodies the obligations of states in the field of health and sanitation for human societies is particularly important. While such a right is considered as a practical approach to maintaining human security and cannot be denied by positive achievements, its absence can be faced with many challenges. The challenges depend on some factors, most notably the weakness in the warrant of the obligation to international cooperation between states and the primacy of their national benefit in people’s access to public health. Our investigation suggests that these rights are considered to be human rights. Hence, states should, through international cooperation and accepting responsibility concerning the observance of this human right, increase their executive capacity for human security.

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Jurisprudence and Islamic Law
Volume 10, Issue 18
March 2019
Pages 51-73

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