[Reblog] Are governments legally obliged to ensure adequate access to health information?

From the 3 August 2013 blog item at Soumyadeep B -Caffeinated Works & Random Musings

The Lancet Global Health published a paper yesterday titled , ”  Governments are legally obliged to ensure adequate access to health information  ” that calls  to increase the availability and use of healthcare information in low- and middle-income countries globally and recognition of access to health information as a legal right of citizen The paper has been written by Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik, HIFA Country Representatives for India together with his colleagues Pranab Chatterjee, and Tamoghna Biswas along with Dr Neil Pakenham Walsh , coordinator of HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 networks and codirector of Global Healthcare Information Network.

The full article may be read here

An excerpt..

A 2012 analysis12 by the New York Law School and HIFA2015 concluded that “health information is an essential component of many identified and established human rights. States party to treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights must provide and guarantee access to health information.”

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