The right to health of disaster victims
S. William A. Gunn
(S. William A. Gunn is President, International Association for Humanitarian Medicine Brock Chisholm, and is on the Editorial Board of Disaster Prevention and Management. He was previously Head of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Humanitarian Operations.)
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Abstract
Health is a human right and remains so under all circumstances. It becomes, however, particularly vulnerable in emergency and disaster situations, and even in efficient and well‐meaning relief operations the health rights of victims usually get overlooked, if not downtrodden. Five international conventions or instruments that underpin this right and guide the disaster responder to respect it are put forward for more efficient and more humanitarian disaster management.
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Citation
Gunn, S.W.A. (2003), "The right to health of disaster victims", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 48-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/09653560310463856
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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