Abstract
The indispensability of health to life and human wellbeing is not subject of any serious controversy. Similarly, the link between health and poverty is firmly established in the literature—the simple reason being that poverty is both a cause and consequence of ill health. Recognition of this relationship explains the inclusion of health as a component of the most important contemporary poverty centered global policy framework, namely, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Nonetheless, although there seems to be a general consensus that at the core of the SDGs is poverty eradication (SDG 1) and that all the SDGs are intertwined and intimately linked with this core, no such link has been established between health (SDG 3) and the rest of the SDGs. Yet, this is a very important question that cannot be glossed over. Specifically, the question is whether there is a nexus between each and every SDG, on one hand, and health or the right thereto, on the other? The importance of this question derives from the idea that the linkages, should they be found to exist, would have a monumental impact on global health, in terms of contributing to the capacity of States to fulfil the obligation they assumed under international law to respect, protect, and fulfil the right to health. Probing the question is the task of this Article.
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Nnamuchi, Obiajulu
(2020)
"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) and the Right to Health: Is There a Nexus?,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 32:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol32/iss2/1