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Right to Health and Proportion of Right to Health Information in the Patient’s Right Charters

Right to Health and Proportion of Right to Health Information in the Patient’s Right Charters

Mir Sajjad Seyed Mousavi, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Mohammad Ghari Seyed Fatemi, Mohammad Rasekh, Mohammad Hossein Zarei, Ali Akbar Gorji
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 10
ISSN: 2156-1818|EISSN: 2156-180X|EISBN13: 9781466632615|DOI: 10.4018/ijudh.2013040107
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Mousavi, Mir Sajjad Seyed, et al. "Right to Health and Proportion of Right to Health Information in the Patient’s Right Charters." IJUDH vol.3, no.2 2013: pp.59-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2013040107

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Mousavi, M. S., Gavgani, V. Z., Fatemi, M. G., Rasekh, M., Zarei, M. H., & Gorji, A. A. (2013). Right to Health and Proportion of Right to Health Information in the Patient’s Right Charters. International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH), 3(2), 59-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2013040107

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Mousavi, Mir Sajjad Seyed, et al. "Right to Health and Proportion of Right to Health Information in the Patient’s Right Charters," International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) 3, no.2: 59-68. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2013040107

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Abstract

Health is not lack of disease. It is an incomplete condition of psychological, physical and public welfare. Therefore to benefit from highest norms of healthiness is one of the most fundamental and necessary rights of human being. According to the Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health, and wellbeing of himself and his family.” United Nations. (2012). This paper reviews the proportion of right to health information in international, regional and national legislations and examines the patients’ right to information in patients’ right charters. This study is qualitative study it reviews the patients right charters to follow the portion of right to right to health information. International, regional, and national conventions along with the patients’ right charters of five countries from the five continents were examined against the right to health and right to health information. The Britain patient’s right charter more than other countries in this study has considered and dealt with right to information, about 4 out of 7 of its total articles refer to right to information. In contrast South Africa was assigned as the country which gives less priority to right to information among the other countries. Four out of 11 articles in the patients’ right charter of this country deals with right to health information. Iranian Patients’ right charter stood in the fourth rank after Britain, US and Australia for respecting the patients’ right to information, 2 out of 5 articles.

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