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Health and Human Rights Impact Assessments

NHS Health Scotland Human Rights Resource

Health Rights of Women Impact Assessment Instrument Aim for Human Rights (2008) is a strategic tool for NGOs to lobby governments to better implement health rights of women utilising a human rights approach. Can be used to analyse both health policies and a wide range of other policies that have indirect health impacts.
Impact Assessments, Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study Using the Highest Attainable Standard of Health by Paul Hunt, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and Gillian MacNaughton (2006). A tool for governments to assess the impact of proposed policies on human rights. It builds upon the HeRWAI methodology. It focuses on the impact of policies on the right to health, but could be utilised as the basis for other economic, social and cultural rights HRIAs.
Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru A Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood Physicians for Human Rights (2007). A study of maternal mortality in Peru.
Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) (2007). This research assesses the implementation by African governments of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and other relevant international and regional instruments including the Section C of the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA).
Using Human Rights for Maternal and NeoNatal Health: A tool for strengthening laws, policies and standards of care, World Health Organisation (2006). A case study of Indonesia.
11 HRIAs using the Health Rights of Women Assessment, Hosted on the Human Rights Impact Resource Centre. Studies include Kenya (labour law and maternity leave), Bangladesh (preventing maternal mortality), the Netherlands (reform of health insurance law for undocumented workers and closing prostitution areas), Nepal (reproductive health and violence against women) and Pakistan (national education policy).
The Assessment of the Right to Health and Healthcare at the Country Level, People’s Health Movement (2006). Based upon the HeRWAI model. This tool is intended for use by NGOs in order to evaluate the overall government health policy and the extent to which it is realising the right to health.