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  • Published on: 22 May 2024
    Health & equitable healthcare is a human right

    Health & healthcare is a human rights issue. Persons with intellectual disabilities use disproportionately more health care resources than the population without intellectual disabilities. In spite of this, they experience poorer health outcomes and they and their carers are significantly less satisfied with the quality of care provided to them by a variety of healthcare personnel. This can include doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other personnel.

    The right to health contains freedoms. These freedoms include the right to be free from non-consensual medical treatment, such as medical experiments and research or forced sterilization, and to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

    The right to health also contains entitlements. These entitlements include among others:   The right to a system of health protection providing equality of opportunity for everyone to enjoy the highest attainable level of health; The right to prevention, treatment and control of diseases; Equal and timely access to basic health services; The provision of health-related education and information; Equal and timely access to basic health services etc.

    Human rights are interdependent, indivisible and interrelated. This means that violating the right to health may often impair the enjoyment of other human rights, such as the rights to education or work, and vice versa. Persons with disabilities face various challenges to the enjoy...

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