You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Speaker's corner
Health, equity, human rights, and the invasion of Iraq
  1. P A Braveman
  1. Center on Social Disparities in Health, Box 0900, Univ of CA, SF, San Francisco, USA; pbrave@itsa.ucsf.edu

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.8.593

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

      During the days culminating in the US-British invasion of Iraq, I was working with a human rights attorney colleague, exploring links and distinctions between health, equity, and human rights. These concepts thus have been in my thoughts, and concern for each leads me to deplore the invasion of Iraq on several counts.

      Firstly, given the scale of suffering and death that inevitably accompany war, it is unconscionable to embark on that course, even for a just cause, except as a clearly demonstrated last resort. There is widespread international consensus that reasonable alternatives to war had not been exhausted in this case. …

      View Full Text

      Linked Articles