A Global Review of the Litigation of Health Human Rights
Colleen Flood, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (3/21/2014). Presented as part of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute Seminar Series (http://www.dal.ca/hli/seminar-series).
Tagged: Health Human Rights
Canadian Health Law & Policy (5th Edition)
Provides guidance on the laws, regulations, programs, plans and practices affecting conditions of work and employee benefits in Ontario. A wide range of topics is covered including: hiring, employment standards, termination, pension plans and retirement savings, health care benefits, disability benefits, non-traditional job structures, leaves and flex-time, job sharing, contract workers, telework, human rights issues, health and safety and privacy in the workplace Features useful charts, checklists – including a...
The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study
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 to advance greater equality through access to health care. Does health care promote equality, or does it in fact advance the opposite result? Does inserting the idea of “the right to health” into health systems allow the reinsertion of public values into...
Litigating the Right to Health: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Law and Health Care Systems Approach?
Colleen M. Flood & Aeyal Gross, “Litigating the Right to Health: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Law and Health Care Systems Approach?” (2014) 16 Health and Human Rights Journal 54.
Health Human Rights Around the World
“Health Human Rights Around the World” – presentation at the Harvard Human Rights Journal Colloquium, 11 April 2013, Harvard Law School
Health Human Rights – A Comparison of the Public/Private Divide
“Health Human Rights – A Comparison of the Public/Private Divide” – Harvard Human Rights Program, April 11 2013, Cambridge.
Introduction: The Big Tent Theory of Health Law
“Introduction: The Big Tent Theory of Health Law” in Canadian Health Law and Policy (4th edition) (with J. Downie & T. Caulfield) (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2011). 8 pages Provides guidance on the laws, regulations, programs, plans and practices affecting conditions of work and employee benefits in Ontario. A wide range of topics is covered including: hiring, employment standards, termination, pension plans and retirement savings, health care benefits, disability benefits, non-traditional job...
Canadian Health Law and Policy (4th Edition)
Provides guidance on the laws, regulations, programs, plans and practices affecting conditions of work and employee benefits in Ontario. A wide range of topics is covered including: hiring, employment standards, termination, pension plans and retirement savings, health care benefits, disability benefits, non-traditional job structures, leaves and flex-time, job sharing, contract workers, telework, human rights issues, health and safety and privacy in the workplace Features useful charts, checklists – including a...
Access to Justice, Access to Care: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance
Historically, the Supreme Court of Canada has avoided direct intervention in health care policy-making. This posture changed dramatically with the release of the Chaoulli decision in June 2005. In a narrow four-to-three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Quebec laws prohibiting the sale of private health insurance on the basis that they violate Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Three of the four judges in the majority also found...
