Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities

Anuj Kapilashrami is Professor and Chair in Health Policy and Equity and Director of the Centre for Global Health and Intersectional Equity Research at the University of Essex. Neil Quinn is Professor of Social Work and Health Equity and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Abhijit Das is Managing Trustee of the Centre for Health and Social Justice in New Delhi and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

Part 1


1. Introduction


2. History of community participation in public health – from primary care movement to UHC


3. ‘Communities’, Power, and Participation: Unpacking concepts from praxis


Part 2


4. Engaging communities at the Margins to tackle health inequities.


5. Sustaining action through Social Movements for the Right to Health


6. Addressing Political, Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health


7. Strengthening accountability for the realization of the right to health


Part 3


8. Community Activism in Action


9. The role of arts, social media and participatory action research in advancing health rights


10. Conclusion- Community organizing and collective action as Countervailing power for healthy and just societies.