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 | Summary of Summer Session 2011
August 22, 2011
Knesset Summary – Summer 2011 With the conclusion of the summer 2011 Knesset session, the Association for Civil … Read more
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ACRI Presents: What Happened to Us?
August 8, 2011
What’s behind the expanding social protest across Israel? The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) presents facts and … Read more
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Knesset Roundup – Social and Economic Rights | July 13
July 13, 2011
June 26 – July 10 2011 A special roundup of non-anti-democratic Knesset work from the past couple of weeks, … Read more
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Public Network for Health Equity Demands National Plan for Closing Health Gaps
July 6, 2011
The Public Network for Health Equity in Israel, of which ACRI is a member, calls upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu … Read more
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Knesset Roundup | July 4
July 4, 2011
June 27 – July 10 2011 Recent Anti-Democratic Legislation June 27 | Preventing Harm to the State … Read more