The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

Lawrence O Gostin; John T Monahan; Jenny Kaldor; Mary DeBartolo; Eric A Friedman; Katie Gottschalk; Susan C Kim; Ala Alwan; Agnes Binagwaho; Gian Luca Burci; Luisa Cabal; Katherine DeLand; Timothy Grant Evans; Eric Goosby; Sara Hossain; Howard Koh; Gorik Ooms; Mirta Roses Periago; Rodrigo Uprimny; Alicia Ely Yamin

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30233-8

The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

Lancet. 2019 May 4;393(10183):1857-1910. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30233-8. Epub 2019 Apr 30.

Authors

Lawrence O Gostin¹, John T Monahan², Jenny Kaldor³, Mary DeBartolo⁴, Eric A Friedman⁵, Katie Gottschalk⁵, Susan C Kim⁶, Ala Alwan⁷, Agnes Binagwaho⁸, Gian Luca Burci⁹, Luisa Cabal¹⁰, Katherine DeLand¹¹, Timothy Grant Evans¹², Eric Goosby¹³, Sara Hossain¹⁴, Howard Koh¹⁵, Gorik Ooms¹⁶, Mirta Roses Periago¹⁷, Rodrigo Uprimny¹⁸, Alicia Ely Yamin¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: gostin@georgetown.edu.
² Office of the President, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
³ School of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
⁴ Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁷ Health and Environment, Government of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.
⁸ University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
⁹ Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁰ UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ DeLand Associates LLC, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA.
¹³ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁵ Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁶ Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁷ National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁸ Dejusticia, Bogota, Colombia.
¹⁹ Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Female
Global Health / economics
Global Health / history
Global Health / legislation & jurisprudence*
Health Equity / standards
Health Equity / trends
Health Policy*
Health Services Accessibility / economics
Health Services Accessibility / legislation & jurisprudence*
Health Services Accessibility / organization & administration
History, 21st Century
Humans
Legal Services / methods
Life Expectancy / trends
Male
Social Control, Formal / methods
Sustainable Development / legislation & jurisprudence*
Transgender Persons / legislation & jurisprudence