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30 Hum. Rts. Q. 259 (2008)
Development as Health: Employing the Collective Right to Development to Achieve the Goals of the Individual Right to Health

handle is hein.journals/hurq30 and id is 263 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY Development as Health: Employing the Collective Right to Development to Achieve the Goals of the Individual Right to Health Benjamin Mason Meier* & Ashley M. Fox** I. Intro d uctio n ..................................................................................... 2 6 1 II. D evelopm ent and H ealth ................................................................ 262 A. Poverty-How a Lack of Development Impacts Public Health ... 263 1. Underlying Determ inants of Health ........................................ 265 2. Economic Development as a Means to Improve Health ......... 269 B. Public Goods and Public Health Systems ................................... 271 C. Neoliberal Development Programs Harm Public Health ............ 274 1. Evolving Development Paradigms ........................................... 275 2. Poverty & Inequality-How Inequitable Development Im pacts Public H ealth ............................................................ 279 3. Neoliberalism and Public Health System Deterioration .......... 284 III. Rights-Based Development: Failure of the Individual Right to Health to Account for Damages to the Public's Health ................... 290 A. Individual Rights Are Powerless to Protect Public Health Syste m s ....................................................................................... 2 9 3 * Benjamin Mason Meier is an IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University; and Public Health Law Pro- gram Manager, Center for Health Policy, Columbia University. He received his MPhil from Columbia University; LL.M. (International and Comparative Law) from Cornell Law School; J.D. from Cornell Law School; B.A. (Biochemistry) from Cornell University. ** Ashley Fox is an IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University. She received her MPhil from Columbia University; M.A. from the University of Connecticut (Political Science); and B.A. from the University of Connecticut (Political Science). The authors are grateful for the insightful comments of Professor Ronald Bayer, Anne Montgomery, Yayoi Shionoiri, and participants at the various conferences at which these ideas were presented during their formulation and development. Human Rights Quarterly 30 (2008) 259-355 © 2008 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

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