Human Rights in Patient Care: A Practitioner Guide
The Medicine and Law Foundation prepared the Human Rights in Patient Care Practitioner Guide. The Public Health Program of the International Renaissance Foundation supported it.
Practitioner Guide belongs to the series of books, prepared within the frameworks of international project of the Open Society Institute. The book elucidates the rights and dutiesof patients and medical workers, forms and ways of these rights protection on the international, regional and national levels. The issues of forensic examinations fulfi llment are also highlighted in the manual. The book contains a number of constitutional provisions, legal norms of laws and bylaw acts regulating every right and duty separately together with practical examples of their observance and violation, as well as examples from legal practice and useful pieces of advice as regards understanding and application of law. Appendixes contain samples of procedural documents, list of literature used, reference information and glossaries (international and national).
The Medicine and Law Foundation
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prlawlab@ukr.net
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The mission of the Public Health program is to reform public health, to improve public health through support of new approaches to solution of urgent public health problems, in particular, by introduction of a complex model of protection of the rights of patients, palliative care, and support to people living with HIV/AIDS and non-medical drug use.
