There are numerous resources on the right to health.  Two specific resources examine government budgets using national and international standards related to the right to health:

• The more recent of the two, whose title is self-explanatory, is The Missing Link: Applied Budget Work as a Tool to Hold Governments Accountable for Maternal Mortality Reduction Commitments.   This publication is important in highlighting the role of the government’s expenditures—or lack of expenditures—in reducing maternal mortality around the world.

Other resources on the right to health and budgets include:

• Rights or Privileges? Fiscal Commitment to the Rights to Health, Education and Food in Guatemala  (2009) produced by the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), in collaboration with its partner organization in Guatemala, the Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). The report focuses on the government’s poor performance in guaranteeing basic levels of economic and social rights for its population.  It argues that the lack of political will by democratic governments in  Guatemala to invest in realizing these rights, using the maximum resources available in the most equitable way, is the underlying reason behind the non-realization of economic and social rights.