Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 9
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- The obligation to ensure that adequate funds are available for health and to prioritize financing for health should be informed by the core obligations of the right to health (General Comment No. 14, paras. 43-45). Core obligations are non derogable and represent the minimum essential levels which States are required to meet in order to be in compliance with the right to health. Core obligations include positive and negative entitlements and address distributional and equity concerns. Positive entitlements, such as the obligation to ensure access to basic shelter, housing and sanitation, and an adequate supply of safe and potable water, often require States to utilize significant funds and resources towards their realization. Core obligations that establish negative entitlements and address distributional concerns, such as the obligation to ensure equitable allocation of, and non-discriminatory access to, good quality health facilities, goods and services assume the existence of such facilities, goods and services, and thus also require significant financial outlays from States. States should therefore ensure that adequate funds are available for health and prioritize financing for health in order to meet at least these core obligations of the right to health. In this sense, core obligations establish a funding baseline below which States would be considered in violation of their obligations under the right to health.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/302, para. 9.
- Paragraph number
- 9
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