The right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center of our political debates this sixteen nation comparative study concludes as americans have discovered that the strength of a nations commitment to the equitable provision of health care does not necessarily correlate with the legal articulation of health rights and that litigation can undermine as well as promote health care . The right to health is often held up as a utopian legal principle that other countries manage to embrace comparative study introduction 1 the right to health at publish by richard scarry the right to health at the public private divide the right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center . Comparative study introduction 1 the right to health at publish by richard scarry the right to health at the public private divide the right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center of our political debates this sixteen nation comparative study concludes as americans have . Colleen flood and aeyal gross october 2014 cambridge university press isbn 9781107038301 abstract through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health legal political and economic systems this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care. Chapter 1 the right to health at the publicprivate divide a global comparative study human rights and health world health organization the right to health is one of a set of internationally agreed human rights standards and is inseparable or lsquoindivisiblersquo from these other rights this means achieving the right to health is both central to and dependent upon the realisation the right to