The intersecting dimensions of legal capacity building for health Keywords: COVID-19; health equity; health inequalities; Inequality; Legal determinants of health; Social determinants of health. Key features of legal interventions that promote health with equity The law is crucial to protecting the health and well-being of society. This Lancet O`Neill Institute Commission on Global Health and the Law shows how law can be a powerful tool to promote global health. The Commission makes seven recommendations to be implemented to advance global health with equity. Health risks in the 21st century are beyond a country`s control. In the era of globalization, the promotion of public health and equity requires cooperation and coordination both within and among States. Law can be a powerful tool to promote global health, but it is still underutilized and misunderstood. By working in partnership, lawyers and health professionals can become champions of evidence-based laws to ensure public health and safety. The Lancet Commission on Law and Global Health at the O`Neill Institute and Georgetown University articulates the critical role of law – through legal instruments, legal capacity and institutional reform, and the rule of law – in achieving global health in justice. Our report is structured around four “legal determinants of health,” each of which has a strong impact on health outcomes.

We coined the term legal determinants of health because it demonstrates the power of law to address the underlying social and economic causes of injury and illness. The four legal determinants as well as the main recommendations are:1) Law can translate vision into action for sustainable development.2) Law can strengthen the governance of national and global health institutions.3) Law can implement equitable and evidence-based health interventions.4) Strengthen legal capacity for health. Strong legal capacity is a crucial factor in moving towards global health and sustainable development. By providing information on the legal determinants of health, our goal is to empower the global health community to strengthen its legal capacity and use the law more strategically in the pursuit of health and equity. The social determinants of health are the social and economic conditions that have a decisive influence on health at the individual and population levels. In this context, Georgetown University`s O`Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and The Lancet published The legal determinants of health: Harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development in 2019. This report identifies and promotes four legal determinants: the provision of universal health coverage as part of the Sustainable Development Goals; governance of national and global health institutions; conducting evidence-based health interventions; and legal capacity-building. These determinants are dominated by the role of law in the creation and governance of health facilities and the regulation of their interventions. Such work is essential.

However, the relationship between law, health improvement and health equity, articulated by these four determinants, risks marginalizing the issues of disadvantage and inequality we address. This article examines the UK`s experience with COVID-19 and how social inequalities profoundly affected experiences and outcomes in the first year of the pandemic, and builds on the important work of the Lancet-O`Neill Commission to argue that any articulation of the legal determinants of health undermines the role of law in improving equity in social agreements and resource allocation in the This is not the case. not the case in the UK. Health risks in the 21st century are beyond a country`s control. In the era of globalization, the promotion of public health and equity requires cooperation and coordination both within and among States. Law can be an effective tool to promote global health, but it is still underutilized and misunderstood. By working in partnership, lawyers and health professionals can become champions of evidence-based laws to ensure public health and safety. PÅ«ras D.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. United Nations General Assembly, 29th session of the Human Rights Council, 2015. By providing information on the legal determinants of health, our goal is to empower the global health community to strengthen its legal capacity and use the law more strategically in the pursuit of health and equity. This Lancet Commission report highlights the power of law in promoting global health. It describes how lawyers and public health professionals can use evidence-based legislation to ensure public health and safety. The report focuses on four legal determinants that influence the legal, justice and governance factors that influence health and equity: rights-based universal health coverage, standards of good governance, equitable and evidence-based interventions, and legal capacity building. They are used to define seven recommendations for policymakers to advance global health and social justice. The Lancet Commission on Law and Global Health at the O`Neill Institute and Georgetown University articulates the critical role of law – through legal instruments, legal capacity and institutional reform, and the rule of law – in achieving equitable global health. Our report is structured around four “legal determinants of health,” each of which has a strong impact on health outcomes. We invented the concept of legal determinants of health because it demonstrates the power of law to address the underlying social and economic causes of injury and illness.

The four legal determinants and key recommendations are: This Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) web portal is a collection of resources. Lawrence O. Gostin John Monahan Mary C. DeBartolo Eric A. Friedman Susan C. Kim Gian Luca Burci Jenny Kaldor, Ala Alwan, Agnes Binagwaho, Luisa Cabal, Katherine DeLand, Timothy Grant Evans, Eric Goosby, Sara Hossain & Howard Koh Universal Health Coverage cube Adaptiert von der WHO, mit Genehmigung der Weltgesundheitsorganisation.