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Title : Application of human rights and social determinants of health frameworks in improving the living conditions of slum population: the Jakarta case
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Prof. Dr. dr. Mubasysyir Hasan Basri, MA. (1)

Date : 2016
Keyword : social determinants of health,slum,Jakarta,human rights,civil society social determinants of health,slum,Jakarta,human rights,civil society
Abstract : Application of human rights and social determinants of health frameworks in improving the living conditions of slum population: the Jakarta case Mubasysyir Hasanbasri Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health – School of Medicine and Health, Universitas Gadjah Mada The success of the eviction of people living in riverside slum areas in Jakarta raises important implications on actions to tackle the social determinants of health. The underlying arguments that support the eviction of people living in such area is twofold. First, city slum dwellers have experienced as victims of human rights abuse and illegal bribery by local thugs. Second, the government let the people there without legal status, which make their rights as citizens lost. The Jakarta success story is resulted from (1) a strong leadership of the governor that push civil society to bring human rights issue in the right direction and (2) civil society movement to press government's apparatus to fight back thugs, who have controlled slum areas in decades. Learning from this case, the paper discusses important implications similar problems in the major cities throughout Indonesia. One of them is legal action against governors and district mayors who let illegal residents living in the area, and allow rights abuses against civilians. Human rights, social determinants of health, civil society movement, urban slum Paper presented in the 17th Asian Bioethics Conference. Hotel Alana. Yogyakarta 14-17 November 2016
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Level : Internasional
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