Universal access is usually taken to be a fundamental feature of the health care systems of the European Union (EU) member states. Reform debates in other continents regularly look to the European experience as a model to be emulated or as a showcase for methods of preserving access in contexts of marketization and privatization. In the EU, the principle of universal access is indeed a governin...

This study sought to: (a) examine the role of the Zimbabwe Patients’ Charter of Rights in enabling health care access by people with disabilities living with HIV and AIDS; and (b) explore policy translational issues influencing access to HIV and AIDS treatment and care services by people with disabilities living with HIV and AIDS. A survey approach was used to collect data in this study. A purp...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

OBJECTIVES The human dimensions of healthcare--core values and skilled communication necessary for every healthcare interaction--are fundamental to compassionate, ethical, and safe relationship-centered care. The objectives of this paper are to: describe the development of the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare which delineates core values, articulate the role of skilled commu...

Momcilovic v The Queen (2011) 85 ALJR 957; [2011] HCA 34 arose from a prosecution for drug trafficking brought under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 (Vic). The Australian High Court held that the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) (the Charter) validly conferred a power on the Victorian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal to interpret legislation in ...

The paper reviews what is known of Peter Lowe's surgical education, practice and activities before he obtained the Royal Charter in the last year of the sixteenth century, founding what became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. It attempts to separate probable fact from accumulated fiction then discusses briefly Lowe's possible contributions to the contents of the Charter.

Small states, the subject of my presentation today, comprise more than half the total membership of the United Nations. These states are constantly engaged in the search to fulfill the main purposes of the United Nations Charter viz: peace, security and development. Interestingly, it is those very Charter provisions which require the equitable participation of small states in international affa...

The second paragraph of Article 6 the African Charter on right and welfare child obliges its States parties to register birth immediately. Birth registration is a key other children’s rights. In conjugation with UNICEF-Burundi, State made an effort attain completeness. Children’s non-registration undermines all analysis through this research uses documentary methods interviews. Civil servants d...