Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Human Rights in Medicine
Human Rights in Medicine
Human Rights in Medicine
Learning objectives
1. Review and analyse key ethical and human rights concerns as they relate to global health;
2. Discuss some of the central treaties and conventions related to human rights;
3. Describe the most important ethical guidelines for research with human subjects;
4. Discuss some historically significant, and contemporary, cases in human subjects’ research.
Part 1 Human Rights and Health Care
Learning Objectives
1. Review and analyse key ethical and human rights concerns as they
relate to global health;
2. Discuss some of the central treaties and conventions related to human
rights;
Core International Human Rights Treaties
• Examples?
AAAQ Accessibility. For everyone?
• Requires that health facilities, goods, and services must be accessible to
everyone.
• Examples?
AAAQ Acceptability. Do I like it?
• Relates to respect for medical ethics, culturally appropriate, and
sensitivity to gender.
• B. run
• C. riot
Professional Profiles: HEALTH
ADVOCATE
We can do something in 3 ways:
• 1. A human rights-based approach to professional practice