Chapter 5 Flashcards
How does the failure to respect human rights effect health?
- cause other people to be infected if the orignal person does not get treatment
- People don’t get the treatment they need
- less financing towards some issues
What ethical dilemmas are presented with human rights and health?
Is It okay to put of quarantines and restrict movement?
A universal declaration that place obligations on governments to respect, protect and fulfill rights and refrain from violating them
international Bill of Human rights
What is the international bill of human rights made up of?
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
When was the universal declaration of human rights declared?
1948
What does article 25 of the UDHR declare that is realted to healthcare?
- Everyone has the right to adequate living conditions for good health
- Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and attention. All deserve the same attention and protection not matter their social status
A treaty about the rights of quality, liberty and security as well as freedom of movement, religion, expression and association.
International Covenant on Cilvil and Political Rights
a treaty that focuses on the well-being of individuals, including their right to work in safe conditions, receive fair wages, be free from hunger, get an education and enjoy the highest standard of health
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Rights that obligate the provision of benefits and services, such as by a government to the rights holder
positive rights
What the millennium development goals miss?
human rights considerations
The Treatment Action Campaign was created to sue to government of South Africa because it failed to insure that HIV-infacted mothers received treatments to prevent HIV from being passed to their children. this is an example of what?
a failure of article 25 of the UDHR
A convention that commits to promote equality between men and women
Convention of the Elimination of All from of discrimination against women
What was the first convention to focus on the human rights of children?
1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child
What does the Convention on the Rights of the Child state regarding health?
the right of the child to highest standard of health and health facilities.
An approach to global health that focuses on the fulfillment of people’s human rights as a way to improve health.
rights based approach
How does the rights based approach apply to global health?
- assess health policies, programs and practices in terms of their impact on human rights
- Analyze and address the health impacts resulting from violation of human rights
- protritize the fulfillment of human rights
Why is a rights based approach important to global health?
health is more then if you have an illness or not, but it also includes poverty, education, violence and discrimination
What are the limits of using a human rights based approach?
- sometimes you have to act for the public then for the individual
- suspension of human rights may need to occur to stop the spread of disease
Why is AIDs heavily stigmatized?
many people who have AIDs are homosexual, use drugs, have multiple sex partners or work in the sex industry