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The “Highest Attainable Standard”: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to Health for the Development of Sustainable Public Health Systems Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil Earth Institute Student Conference March 26, 2009
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Page 1: The “Highest Attainable Standard”: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to Health for the Development of Sustainable Public Health Systems Benjamin.

The “Highest Attainable Standard”: The Implications of

an Evolving Human Right to Health for the Development of

Sustainable Public Health Systems

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil

Earth Institute Student ConferenceMarch 26, 2009

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Global Health Governance and the Right to Health

• Human Rights Matter • Human Rights Evolve• WHO is Instrumental to the Evolution of the

Right to Health – Development in Law– Implementation through Programming

• Right to Health Ineffective in Addressing Underlying Determinants of Environmental Health

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Research – Geneva Switzerland

• Research– Archival Research– Interview Research

• Analysis– Legal Analysis– Thematic Analysis

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