A/HRC/7/11 page 3 CONTENTS Paragraphs Page I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 1 - 11 4 II. HEALTH SYSTEMS AND THE RIGHT TO THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE STANDARD OF HEALTH ...................................... 12 - 123 5 A. Health systems: some historical landmarks ................................ 20 - 33 6 B. Definitions .................................................................................. 34 - 35 9 C. In general terms, a right-to-health approach to strengthening health systems ...................................................... 36 - 66 10 D. The “building blocks” of a health system ................................... 67 - 73 18 E. Applying the general approach: some specific measures for health system strengthening .................................................. 74 - 108 19 The right to health helps to establish a health system in the same way as the right to a fair trial helps to establish a court system ................................................................................ 109 - 123 25 III. CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................. 124 - 127 27 F.