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For a Human Rights Approach to Health and Housing: Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands

In: Learning from the World

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  • Mila Rosenthal

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In this chapter, I examine how the United States ranks so low on key indicators of economic and social development compared with other wealthy countries, and consider how the overall approach of the US coincides with its history of resistance to international obligations on human rights. Looking at inequality and inequity in health and housing in the United States, I will point to examples from other countries where public policy built on a rights-based framework of governmental responsibility results in significantly better outcomes for a larger proportion of the population, and ask whether American policy can continue to resist looking outward for solutions to the grave challenges within.

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  • Mila Rosenthal, 2014. "For a Human Rights Approach to Health and Housing: Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Joe Colombano & Aniket Shah (ed.), Learning from the World, chapter 15, pages 215-226, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37213-0_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137372130_15
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