The Right to Health
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The right to health is a fundamental human right. Under Israeli law, every Israeli resident is entitled to health services in accordance with the principles of justice, equality, and mutual support. However, the Israeli health system is far from being able to adhere to these principles. On the contrary, we are witnessing increasing inequality in access to health services. Insufficient funding of the public health system, coupled with privatization of health services, have led to a deterioration in the scale and quality of services provided by the health system. The result is two health systems that differ substantially in quality – one for the wealthy and one for the poor.
ACRI works to ensure accessible and equal health services to all citizens and residents of Israel: rich and poor, Arab and Jewish, old and young, living in the center or in the periphery. This includes the rights of the mentally ill with regards to health care, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers with regards to medication administered without proper information. Through legal work including intervening directly with the Ministry of Health, and focused publications, ACRI has brought the issue of the growing inequalities in the health care system into the public sphere.
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Knesset Roundup | June 20
June 20, 2011
June 1 – June 27 2011 Recent Anti-Democratic Legislation Early June | Attorney General Opposes Bill Discriminating … Read more
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Knesset Roundup | 23 May 2011
May 23, 2011
May 16 – May 24 2011 Recent Anti-Democratic Legislation May 16 | “Slavery Law” Passes Final Vote … Read more
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Social and Economic Rights in Israel 2011
May 14, 2011
Since 1985, successive Israeli governments have taken a neo-liberal approach to social and economic policy, steadily yet significantly reducing the … Read more
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Private Medical Service Is off the Negotiations Agenda
April 11, 2011
ACRI and the initiators of the “physicians’ letter” expressed their satisfaction at the Israel Medical Association announcement to physicians that … Read more
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Marking One Hundred Years of International Women’s Day
March 8, 2011
March 8 2011 marks 100 years of International Women’s Day. Despite significant advances made in recent years to ensure women’s … Read more