Objectives

    Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to identify some of the most vulnerable groups in the Americas; understand how UN and OAS human rights instruments protect health and other related human rights in practice; understand why the enjoyment of the right to health is indispensable for the exercise of other human rights; understand why a greater fulfillment of human rights contributes to the enjoyment of health and wellbeing; and become familiar with practical applications for accomplishing the Regional Expected Results on human rights based approaches to health within PAHO’s Secretariat and at national, regional, and global levels in a manner consistent with PAHO strategic plan.

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    The third module of this course presents an approach based on the study of the right to health and its relationship with vulnerable populations of the Americas.

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    Course type: Module
    Technical resource type: Image, Sound, Text
    Format: Flash
    Learning resource type: Lecture
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    Learning context: Continuous Formation
    License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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