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This article offers some ideas about how the international human right to health, established in a variety of sources of international human rights law and general international law, creates a right to health care in the nations of the world. The article addresses the question of the content of the international human right to health. It concludes that the international human right to health requires nation states to take affirmative steps to assure that their residents have access to population-based public health protection measures and also affordable health care services consistent with the nation's economic resources and cultural mores. (aU) (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 34, P. 1457, 2001)