"Making Rights More Relevant for Health Professionals"

"For health, work on human rights has drawn attention to the rights and responsibilities of different actors and has relied on moral principles and legal instruments to highlight the needs of the most vulnerable people. Despite important gains, there remains a substantial gap between the ideals aspired to by human rights advocates and realities on the ground that characterise health systems today."  Read the article by Asha George, Mickey Chopra, Daniel Seymour and Paolo Marchi, Health Section and Gender and Rights Unit, UNICEF, New York.  It was published in May 2010 in The Lancet.