People's Health Movement Guide 2006. "The Assessment of the Right to Health and Health Care at the Country Level"
- Objective: To evaluate the status of the right to health in a country.
- Key characteristics: Focus on right to health (although the framework can be used for any right), on obligation to fulfill, analyses indicators of structure, process and outcome, designed for human rights activists on the ground.
- Brief summary: Sets out detailed steps on how to assess the realization of the right to health. Steps include asking the questions: 1. what are your government's commitments? 2. Are your government's policies appropriate to fulfill these obligations? 3. Is the health system of your country adequately implementing interventions to realize the right to health and health care for all? 4. Does the health status of different social groups and the population of the whole reflect a progression in their right to health and health care? 5. What does the denial or fulfillment of the right to health in your country mean in practice?
- Best used for: Provides clear step by step guide to determine denial of the right to health. Also helps with next steps of policy recommendations.
- Data required: Data to illustrate indicators (structural, process and outcome) on health.
- Tested?: Tested in various countries -- though no review of lessons learned within the guide itself.
- Possible disadvantages: Could include further detail on budget analysis as part of analysis of available resources.
- Going forward:
Further work or emphasis on how this assessment can be used to hold non-state actors also to account and how it can be used to develop policy demands.
- Complementary tools:
Any tools on indicators, to clarify key data that needs to be collected