Ensuring Rights while Protecting Health: The Importance of Using a Human Rights Approach in Implementing Public Health Responses to COVID-19

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Sophia A. Zweig (Author), Alexander J. Zapf (Author), Chris Beyrer (Author), Debarati Guha-Sapir (Author), Rohini J. Haar (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have implemented public health policies that limit individual freedoms in order to control disease transmission. While such limitations on liberties are sometimes necessary for pandemic control, many of these policies have been overl...