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Health and human rights - Setting the priorities
Here we provide a special focus to some of the issues which connect health and healthcare to the principles and practice of human rights.
This theme has been the subject of two events organised by the Human Rights Commission. The first event, in April 2007, took the form of a discussion and engaged a number of contributors working in the legal and health fields, service users and health providers. The second event – a major conference in February 2008 – brought together more than 200 participants and speakers with expertise in health and human rights issues, including Professor Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. In his keynote address to the conference, Professor Hunt drew on his report to the Human Rights Council of January 2008, which can be accessed from the website of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex here.
A number of presentations and papers from both events are available, below, to download. These address a range of issues including mental health, access to treatment, nursing home care for older people, the use of rights-based indicators as an assessment of health, disability rights in relation to health and the social and economic determinants of health. We hope these will assist discussions and assist further work on the importance of the right to health.
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Setting the standards: Human rights and mental health
by Michael Potter, Barrister at Law, April 2007 (paper) |
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Access to treatment and the Convention (ECHR)
by Tony McGleenan, Barrister at Law, April 2007 (paper) |
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PDF File - 100.18 KB |
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Regulation and rights: The case of nursing home care for older people
by Carmel Hughes, Queen's University Belfast, April 2007 (paper) |
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PDF File - 60.99 KB |
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Indicators for a human rights-based approach to health
by Dr Todd Landman, University of Essex, April 2007 (paper) |
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Rights of disabled people in relation to health
by Dr Rowena Daw, Legal Consultant to the Disability Rights Commission and Royal College of Psychiatrists, April 2007 (paper) |
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The social and economic determinants of health
by Jane Wilde, Institute of Public Health in Ireland, April 2007 (paper) |
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Creating a framework for human rights compliance in the public sector
by Jane Gordon, Human Rights Advisor to the NI Policing Board and Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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Extending autonomy past the onset of incapacity: Legal and attitudinal aspects of advance directives
by Samantha Halliday, University of Liverpool and Professor Jörg Richter, University of Rostock, Germany, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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Human rights, equality and healthcare
by Ceri Goddard, British Institute of Human Rights, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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PDF File - 136.34 KB |
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When a patient is harmed by the hospital process - the proposed redress scheme
by Professor Graham Neale, Imperial College London, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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When a patient is harmed by the hospital process - the proposed redress scheme
by Professor Graham Neale, Imperial College London, February 2008 (paper) |
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Is humane and compassionate care enough?
by Professor Desmond O'Neill, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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Human rights as a unifying standard in healthcare
by Elizabeth Wicks, University of Birmingham, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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Human rights and mental health: Negative and positive obligations of states
by Professor Phil Fennell, Cardiff Law School, February 2008 (PowerPoint presentation) |
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Human rights, bioethics and mental disorder
by Professor Phil Fennell, Cardiff Law School, February 2008 (paper) |
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Economic and social rights and health
by Professor Richard Wilkinson, University of Nottingham, February 2008 (paper) |
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