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Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countries

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This paper analyses the health-improving effects of introducing four different constitutional social and environmental human rights (health, free education, adequate living (or welfare), and environment) and the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) into national constitution and jurisprudence in Latin America, where human rights litigations are particularly active.

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  • Hiroaki Matsuura, 2016. "Constitutional social and environmental human rights and child health outcomes in Latin American countries," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-168, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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