Is health care a human right? In 1948 the United Nations,in response to World War II atrocities, defined human rights and issued a declaration identifying those rights considered to be human rights (General Assembly of the UN, 1948; Wronka,2008). The vote was 40 nations in favor of the declaration,
including the United States, none opposed, and 8 abstentions.Human rights were defined as moral entitlements and universal entitlements—that is, human rights attributed to one personwere to be attributed to all. There were 30 articles to the declaration identifying human rights. Article 25.1 states: