International Human Rights Instruments (IHIs) and Regional Human Rights Instruments (RHIs) have been recognised to have made provisions for the right to health. However, the treatment of this right in these instruments has been identified to be precatory rather than dogmatic owing to its...

For the past decade-and-a-half, the government of Ontario has been implementing sweeping reforms in an effort to improve primary health care delivery. Altering physician-compensation models is central to this initiative. One measure of the scale of change is that in 2000 roughly 95 per cent of...

That Nigeria recognizes primary health care (PHC) as holding the key that could crystallize into universal coverage for its population is not in dispute. The language of the National Health Policy, the most important document on health in the country, is quite explicit, that the nation’s...