Toebes, April 2007 Taking a human rights Taking a human rights approach to health approach to health care commercialisation care commercialisation Dr Brigit Toebes, The University of Aberdeen School of Law [email protected]
Dec 22, 2015
Toebes, April 2007
Taking a human rights Taking a human rights approach to health care approach to health care
commercialisationcommercialisation
Dr Brigit Toebes,
The University of Aberdeen
School of Law
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Health and Human RightsHealth and Human Rights
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/hhr.shtml : Honours course ‘Health and Human Rights’ ‘Monitoring the Right to Health: a Multi-
country study’ Research on health care commercialisation PhD Research Dabney Evans on Race and
Health
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Where do I come fromWhere do I come from
Research on ‘Right to Health’Advising on the privatisation of the Dutch
health care system
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Health care commercialisationHealth care commercialisation
Human rights law: neutralyet: serious human rights consequences
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This presentationThis presentation
TerminologyRationale and causes TrendsPublic health perspectiveHuman Rights perspectiveA ‘human rights impact assessment’
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Rationale: Rationale: curb public spendingcurb public spending
Developed countries Inefficiency Ageing of the
population Improvements of
medical techniques Rising expectations Over-consumption?
Developing countries Inefficiency General poverty on the
part of the government Pressure from IFI’s
and TNC’s
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BMA - 2006BMA - 2006
‘There should be no further involvement of the commercial private sector in providing
NHS care. The BMA will campaign to restore an integrated publicly provided
health service in England.’
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The public health perspectiveThe public health perspective
Mackintosh and Koivusalo:More of GDP spent by government or
social insurance funds on health care: better care at birth;
Higher primary care commercialisation: greater exclusion of children from treatment when ill.
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Their conclusion:Their conclusion:
‘Health systems are part of the public policy sphere’
‘Policies towards commercialization within health systems should and can be within national and local democratic control’
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The human rights The human rights perspective?perspective?
‘Human rights impact assessment’
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Relevant human rightsRelevant human rights
Rights to information and political participation
Right to healthRight to a remedyRight to privacy
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Information and political Information and political participationparticipation
Information and consultation
of the public
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AAAQAAAQ
AvailabilityAccessibilityNon-discrimination
Physical accessibility
Affordability
Information accessibility
AcceptabilityQuality
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Minimum core obligationsMinimum core obligations
Programme of Action ICPDPrimary Health Care WHOMillennium Development Goals
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The human rights impact The human rights impact assessmentassessment
Public informed and consulted?Effects on the adequacy of the services?Regulatory mechanisms in place?Means of redress?Medical data protected?