Alderson, P;
(2016)
Health and children's rights.
In:
Handbook of Children's Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives.
(pp. 203-220).
Routledge: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, United Nations General Assembly, 1989) is imbued with respect for every child’s embodied worth and dignity, and with the social, economic and political means of promoting these. Ratified in every country except the US, the CRC shows how health and health care weave into practically every human right. The Committee on the Rights of the Child (2013) analyses this in detail, because all children’s rights are interdependent and indivisible. The Committee regards ‘health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’, following the World Health Organization (WHO, 1946). The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Union 1990, Article 14) adds ‘spiritual health’ and like the CRC (Article 24c) directly links health to ‘nutritious food and safe [or clean] drinking water’ and the right to ‘adequate health care’.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Health and children's rights |
| ISBN-13: | 9781848724785 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315766300 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766300 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1539071 |
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