Yamin Alicia Ely
Guest Editor, Lecturer on Global Health and Policy Director at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
Health Hum Rights. 2014 Dec 11;16(2):E1-9.
One of the most significant transformations to occur in the landscape of struggles for health justice since this journal was originally launched relates to the increasing judicialization of health-related rights, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights) more broadly. Indeed, the articles in this issue go far toward debunking outdated conceptions about health rights as merely "programmatic rights," which are not justiciable. Over the last 20 years, and increasingly in the last decade, we have seen that health and related rights are in fact being enforced by courts around the world, from South America to South Asia, Eastern Europe to East Africa. And increasingly, even in low-income countries, important demands for health-related entitlements are being framed in terms of legally enforceable claims.
自本期刊创刊以来，健康正义斗争领域发生的最重大转变之一，是与健康相关权利以及更广泛的经济、社会和文化权利（ESC权利）的司法化程度日益提高。事实上，本期的文章在很大程度上驳斥了关于健康权利仅仅是“纲领性权利”因而不可诉诸司法的过时观念。在过去20年里，尤其是在过去十年中，我们看到从南美洲到南亚、从东欧到东非，世界各地的法院都在实施健康及相关权利。甚至在低收入国家，对与健康相关权益的重要诉求也越来越多地以具有法律可执行性的主张来表述。
