Human rights and drug control : access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries / Marie Elske Gispen.
2017
K3636 .G57 2017 (Mapit)
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Human rights and drug control : access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries / Marie Elske Gispen.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Intersentia Ltd, [2017]
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xxiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
School of Human Rights Research series ; v. 80.
Summary
Globally, millions of people suffer health and socio-economic related problems due to the unavailability of controlled essential medicines, such as morphine for pain treatment, which leaves them in disabling and sometimes degrading situations. Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Even though the unavailability of controlled essential medicines is generally caused by a multifaceted and complex interplay of factors, the current international drug-control framework paradoxically hinders rather than fosters the access to medicines.
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Globally, millions of people suffer health and socio-economic related problems due to the unavailability of controlled essential medicines, such as morphine for pain treatment, which leaves them in disabling and sometimes degrading situations. Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Even though the unavailability of controlled essential medicines is generally caused by a multifaceted and complex interplay of factors, the current international drug-control framework paradoxically hinders rather than fosters the access to medicines.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.
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STA
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K3636 .G57 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781780684543
1780684541
1780684541
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