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The “Highest Attainable Standard”: The Implications of
an Evolving Human Right to Health for the Development of
Sustainable Public Health Systems
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil
Earth Institute Student ConferenceMarch 26, 2009
Global Health Governance and the Right to Health
• Human Rights Matter • Human Rights Evolve• WHO is Instrumental to the Evolution of the
Right to Health – Development in Law– Implementation through Programming
• Right to Health Ineffective in Addressing Underlying Determinants of Environmental Health
UN
Research – Geneva Switzerland
• Research– Archival Research– Interview Research
• Analysis– Legal Analysis– Thematic Analysis
WHO