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Patient autonomy and criminal law
Published in Paweł Daniluk, Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law, 2023
Olga Sovova, Helena Van Beersel Krejčíková
The right to health concerns not only the provision of healthcare, but also the human right when seeking health services, not to become a mere faceless object within a system administered by the state or by other authorities. The patient's autonomy and the right for self-determination form the basis for any medical intervention and treatment, even under critical or pandemic circumstances. Both public and private legal regulation stipulate for these approaches in theory and practice. Likewise, Czech courts on different levels ruled in favour of the patient's right for autonomy and self-determination. In one of the essential decisions, the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic (Constitutional Court) ruled that everybody has the right to decide about medical care. Just the law can stipulate for the obligation to undergo medical intervention without informed consent. The Constitutional Court concluded that the diagnosis could not overrule the law.7
The Right to Health for Forced Migrants
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
The right to health is one of the economic, social and cultural rights and one of the fundamental human rights conducive to living a life in dignity. The right to health is not only the right to healthcare but also the right to underlying determinants of health, such as safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and housing, education and health-related information. Healthcare services should be available in sufficient quantity, accessible (in terms of physical, economic and information access) to everyone without discrimination, acceptable (respectful of medical ethics and cultural appropriateness), scientifically and medically appropriate, and of good quality6,7 as outlined in more detail in Table 2.1.1 in the previous section of this chapter.
Strategies in community health education and wellness programmes
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Leon Wai Li, C.C. Ma, Percy W.T. Ho
Achieving health equity will not only fulfil human right to health in every setting, but will also overcome obstacles, such as inadequate supply of health care workers, and allow for people to obtain health services by forming a number of global health strategies, which in turn benefit the health care system. Therefore, in the future global health education, the issue of insufficient health care workforce and lack of health professional training must be addressed, in order to ensure better access to quality health care services in different areas in the future and to achieve and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 (Steeb et al., 2019). For instance, the creation of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) by US non-governmental organisation in Rwanda had provided an opportunity to people who are underprivileged and living in remote rural area to have equitable access to the necessary health care services (Binagwaho, 2017).
How deep is the cancerous cut of substance use disorders on human rights? The effects of substance use disorders from a human rights perspective: The thinking of Developmental Clinical Social Work
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2023
Robert K. Chigangaidze, Muridzo Noel Garikai, Simbine Samuel Lisenga
States recognize the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (Kumar, 2015). Substance use has been a thorny public health issue throughout human history (Lo et al., 2020). Substance use disorders are associated with high levels of anxiety and depression (Mohamed et al., 2020). The rise of non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, heart diseases, liver cirrhosis and others have been significantly linked to substance use disorders among other causes. Substance use disorders also account for risky behaviors that promote the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases. All these health conditions interfere with the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. The human right to health is interconnected to several human rights, such as the right to adequate food and nutrition, adequate housing, clean and healthy environment, and development, which will be explored in detail in the following sections.
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Privacy and Health Practices in the Digital Age”
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2022
Monique Pyrrho, Leonardo Cambraia, Viviane Ferreira de Vasconcelos
Bioethics in Brazil is historically related to the redemocratization of the country and the crucial role that the right to health played in that process (Porto and Garrafa 2011). The country was leaving behind years of dictatorship and it was very clear that states can violate fundamental rights. The failure to protect everyone is historical and persistent in Brazil. Yet, the right to health was conceived by law to protect all, but beyond that, it was recognized as a means to promote equity to vulnerable people. Decisions have to be made to guarantee the right to health, including regulatory and budgetary. Moreover, there is legal provision to participate in popular movements in the interest of promoting equity. By the time of redemocratization in Brazil, the right to health was, as we think the right to privacy should be now, considered an essential condition to promote democratic citizenship.
A call for a new perspective in social work and health care: the developmental-clinical social work perspective. COVID-19 pandemic through the human rights perspective
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2022
Robert Kudakwashe Chigangaidze
The notion of health as a human right calls for the advancement of people’s health in the same way the 18th century activists fought for freedom and liberty (Sen, 2008). The pandemic calls for a social justice-oriented health system that fights for affordability, acceptability, attainability, quality, reliability, and efficiency in health-care services. The right to health covers not only the provision of health-care services but also the existence of a healthy and therapeutic milieu that ensures resilience in the face of a health outbreak. Put simply, the human right to health is intrinsically related to the enhancement of the general welfare of the population and also connects with other human rights such as the right to adequate housing, food and nutrition, education to mention but a few. Now more than ever, we need to transform the right to health to meet the challenges of this season and to advance toward a deeper understanding of health justice for the many millions of people who will be infected and affected by this pandemic (Forman, 2020). Social workers have been fighting for human rights for centuries, and it is part of their professional value systems (Ife, 2008).