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Access to Health

By: Sheridy Leslie, Health and Wellness Editor


How does one determine who should have access to health, and for how long, and at what cost? These are some of the questions that arise when facing the growing international crisis, access to health.

What do we mean by access to health?

Health has been considered by many cultures and communities to be a basic necessity or right that every human being is entitled to regardless of nationality, religion, gender, or any other trait of diversity. However, like many other freedoms (i.e. freedom of speech, freedom of movement, etc.) access to health services have come to be controlled by a few at the expense of many.
The issues that have most commonly become associated with restricted access to health includes: Poverty, gender, underdevelopment, and stigma. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has most clearly addressed these areas by which access to health is often restricted in Articles 6 & 25 by highlighting every person’s universal right to life, health, and personhood free from any and all forms of discrimination .

In addition, this new century has brought with it many of the past problems associated to providing equal access to health for all global citizens, yet the world’s youth have been making significant strides towards reversing many of these problems. In particular, the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals have merged the spirit and intent of the UDHR and the inspirational drive of many of the world’s youth to launch thousands of projects, with hundreds of them solely devoted to goals 4 (“reduce child mortality”), 5 (“improve maternal health”), and 6 (“combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases”).

Together youth can and have made a difference in how the world responds to the call to ensure access to health for this generation and into the future.


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