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Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work
In the 2008 report Closing the gap in a generation, the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) described “fair employment and decent work” as components of daily living conditions that have “powerful effects on health.” The CSDH therefore proposed far-reaching structural changes to b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568401 |
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description | In the 2008 report Closing the gap in a generation, the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) described “fair employment and decent work” as components of daily living conditions that have “powerful effects on health.” The CSDH therefore proposed far-reaching structural changes to bring about decent work and health for all. Crucially, however, it failed to acknowledge two relevant international legal frameworks, the Decent Work Agenda of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the right to decent work in international human rights law. This article compares the three frameworks for decent work—CSDH, ILO, and human rights—and makes two arguments. First, it contends that the CSDH, as a creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and therefore part of the UN system, should have grounded its report—including the section on decent work—in the applicable international law, including the UN Charter and human rights treaties. Second, had the CSDH linked its report to established international law, it would have strengthened all three frameworks, bringing coherence to international law and policy and bolstering the power of the ILO, WHO, and the human rights mechanisms to counter neoliberalism toward achieving their common goal of decent work and health for all. |
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spelling | pubmed-62933422018-12-19 Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work Macnaughton, Gillian Frey, Diane Health Hum Rights Research-Article In the 2008 report Closing the gap in a generation, the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) described “fair employment and decent work” as components of daily living conditions that have “powerful effects on health.” The CSDH therefore proposed far-reaching structural changes to bring about decent work and health for all. Crucially, however, it failed to acknowledge two relevant international legal frameworks, the Decent Work Agenda of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the right to decent work in international human rights law. This article compares the three frameworks for decent work—CSDH, ILO, and human rights—and makes two arguments. First, it contends that the CSDH, as a creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and therefore part of the UN system, should have grounded its report—including the section on decent work—in the applicable international law, including the UN Charter and human rights treaties. Second, had the CSDH linked its report to established international law, it would have strengthened all three frameworks, bringing coherence to international law and policy and bolstering the power of the ILO, WHO, and the human rights mechanisms to counter neoliberalism toward achieving their common goal of decent work and health for all. Harvard University Press 2018-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6293342/ /pubmed/30568401 Text en Copyright © 2018 MacNaughton and Frey. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Macnaughton, Gillian Frey, Diane Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title | Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title_full | Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title_fullStr | Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title_short | Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work |
title_sort | challenging neoliberalism: ilo, human rights, and public health frameworks on decent work |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568401 |
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