The publicprivate divide a global comparative study uploaded by debbie macomber the right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center of our political debates this sixteen nation comparative mobilizing health workers for the protection. The right to health at the public private divide a global comparative study june 6 2014 june 6 2014 ahoffman allison hoffman bioethics global health health care reform health law policy human rights international public health publications by allison k hoffman in the us the right to health is often held up as a utopian legal principle that other countries manage to embrace . The right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center of our political debates this sixteen nation comparative study concludes as americans have discovered that the strength of a nations commitment to the equitable provision of . The right to health at the public private divide comes at a uniquely opportune time for american and global readers as rights to health care dominate the center of our political debates this sixteen nation comparative study concludes as americans have discovered that the strength of a nations commitment to the equitable provision of health care does not necessarily correlate with the legal articulation of health rights and that litigation can undermine as well as promote health care . 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 in advancing 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 systems that are undergoing privatization or does