Foreword / Paul Hunt -- The emergence and scope of the human right to health / Stephen P. Marks -- Advancing the right to health through litigation / Oscar A. Cabrera and Ana S. Ayala -- The right to health : from concept to practice / Helena Nygren-Krug -- Health development as nation strengthening / Ariel Pablos-Mendéz and Lesley Stone -- Pillars for progress on the right to health / Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin -- Haiti : an overview of its right to health history and future directions / Donna Barry, Kate Greene, Wesler Lambert, Fernet Léandre, and Loune Viaud -- The right to health in Ghana : healthcare, human rights, and politics / Raymond A. Atuguba -- Health and development in India : moving towards the right to health / Ravi Duggal -- The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa / Charles Ngwena, Rebecca Cook, and Ebenezer Durojaye -- The domestic implementation of the international right to health : the Philippine experience / Raul Pangalangan -- China's evolution in progressively realizing the right to health / Philip D. Chen and Di Wu -- Brazil : a long journey towards a universal healthcare system / Armando De Negri Filho -- The right to health in Peru / Ariel Frisancho -- Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico / Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez-Dantés -- The United Kingdom : the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service / Matthew Weait -- The right to health in Japan : challenges of a super-ageing society and implications from its 2011 public health emergency / Hiroaki Matsuura and Eriko Sase -- United States : right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reform / Alicia Ely Yamin and Jean Connolly Carmalt -- Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria / Britta Baer, Andrew Ball, Helena Nygren-Krug, Aafje Rietveld, and Diana Weil -- Global tobacco control : a vital component of the right to health / Oscar A. Cabrera and Lawrence O. Gostin -- Women's health and human rights : struggles to engender social transformation / Alicia Ely Yamin -- The right to health in prison / Joanne Mariner and Rebecca Schleifer -- Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies / Stephen P. Marks and Adriana Benedict -- Nutrition and human rights : why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right / Martin W. Bloem and Saskia de Pee -- Primum non nocere and the right to health / José M. Zuniga and Imane Sidibé -- Combating torture and other ill-treatment / Michael Bochenek -- Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights / Victoria Sutton -- Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health / Lisa Eckstein -- Financing governments : towards achieving the right to health / Joia Mukherjee -- The consequences of failure / Anand Grover, Brian Citro, and Mihir Mankad