Lougarre Claire
Lecturer in Law at Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Health Hum Rights. 2016 Dec;18(2):35-48.
Five years ago, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on universal health coverage, followed a year later by a resolution from the United Nations General Assembly. In these resolutions, states promised to deliver affordable health care for everyone, referring to notions of equity and human rights law, particularly a human right to health. However, the explosion of migration coupled with the post-2008 bleak economic climate have led societies worldwide to restrict, or at least challenge, the affordability of access to national health systems for non-nationals. It is in this light that the claims of universality made by universal health coverage should be challenged. This article, therefore, will question the effectiveness of this global health policy in guaranteeing access to affordable health care for non-nationals and will ask whether and how legal avenues such as the right to health should be used to address potential weaknesses.
五年前，世界卫生大会通过了一项关于全民健康覆盖的决议，一年后联合国大会也通过了一项相关决议。在这些决议中，各国承诺为每个人提供可负担得起的医疗保健，提及了公平和人权法的概念，特别是健康权。然而，移民的激增以及2008年后黯淡的经济形势导致全球社会限制，或至少质疑非本国国民获得国家卫生系统服务的可负担性。正是鉴于此，全民健康覆盖所宣称的普遍性应受到质疑。因此，本文将质疑这一全球卫生政策在保障非本国国民获得可负担得起的医疗保健方面的有效性，并将探讨是否以及如何利用诸如健康权等法律途径来解决潜在的弱点。
