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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ACRI and SHATIL Establish Hot Line for Residents of South
January 6, 2009
Information available on workers’ rights during conflict, access to health, compensation, and more ACRI and SHATIL have established a special … Read more
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State of Human Rights Report 2008
December 7, 2008
ACRI Gauges Israel’s Realization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 60th Anniversary of its Adoption The full version … Read more
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ACRI Petitions for Health Clinic in Unrecognized Bedouin Village
October 27, 2008
Residents of Tel Al-Melach must travel for 2.5 hours to reach nearest health clinic, despite State’s commitment to serve Bedouin … Read more
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An Important Step Toward Equality in Health-Care
July 1, 2008
ACRI and partners score an important victory after a draft bill to increase access to life-saving medications passes in its … Read more
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The Right to Health
May 15, 2008
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Martin Luther King, Jr. … Read more