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In their monthly editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the critical need for access to high quality health information for both citizens and health workers across the globe. In low- and middle-income countries, such information is often not available where it is needed, or the information is not usable because it is in the wrong language or because it does not match the context or level of education of the health care provider.
In a recently published white paper, Neil Pakenham-Walsh and Molly Land argue that, because access to health information is a key determinant to the human right to the highest attainable standard of health, governments have a legal responsibility under international human rights law to provide access to health care information to citizens and health workers. The PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the potential for initiatives, such as HIFA-Watch (http://www.hifa2015.org/hifa-watch/), run by Health Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015), to evoke change by highlighting both positive and negative examples of practice by governments.
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Citation: (2013) PLOS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 10(4) April 2013. PLOS Med 10(4): ev10.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v10.i04
Published: April 30, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Moving Mountains Trust. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In their monthly editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the critical need for access to high quality health information for both citizens and health workers across the globe. In low- and middle-income countries, such information is often not available where it is needed, or the information is not usable because it is in the wrong language or because it does not match the context or level of education of the health care provider.
In a recently published white paper, Neil Pakenham-Walsh and Molly Land argue that, because access to health information is a key determinant to the human right to the highest attainable standard of health, governments have a legal responsibility under international human rights law to provide access to health care information to citizens and health workers. The PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the potential for initiatives, such as HIFA-Watch (http://www.hifa2015.org/hifa-watch/), run by Health Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015), to evoke change by highlighting both positive and negative examples of practice by governments.
Image Credit: Moving Mountains Trust at flickr.com