BACKGROUND The realisation of patients' rights in resource-constrained and patient-burdened public health care settings in Uganda remains an obstacle towards quality health care delivery, health care-seeking behaviour and health outcomes. Although the Uganda Patients' Charter of 2009 empowers patients to demand quality care, inequitable access and abuse remain common. AIM The study aimed to a...

As the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states, People with disabilities have the same general health care needs as other patients, but they are more like to find health care providers’ skill and facilities inadequate, to be denied health care, and to be treated badly in the health care systems [1]. In the United Kingdom several inquires report deaths of peopl...

The Patient's Charter has been in effect for nearly five years. This article considers the purpose and value of the document through a comparison with the New Jersey Patient Bill of Rights. Patient rights statements have been posted in American hospitals for more than twenty years. However, the New Jersey document and the patient rights programme it established seven years ago, have proven to b...

We are living in a world where the mode of thinking is being increasingly influenced by Western ideology. The discourse about personal rights is one of the consequences of Western philosophy. Malawi, a south-eastern African country, has produced a Charter of Patients and Health Workers’ Rights and Responsibilities. Implementation of this document is expected to contribute to improving the deliv...

Patient rights is one of the essential rights that should be considered by the medical staff, checking and comparing the attitudes of first and last year medical students to inform the ethical points of service delivery is important. The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate of first and last year medical students' attitude about respecting patients' rights in hospitals of Bushehr Unive...

background considering the effect of human right observance on patients’ satisfaction from the treatment process, in iran the patient rights charter (prc) was developed by the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in 2001 and enforced to all hospitals across the country. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate patients’ awareness of their rights based on prc in two tertiary ...

Today, the global system is formed based on multilateralism, which is based on international relations and the origin of international organizations and institutions. But this matter is endangered by the unilateralism pursued by the United States of America. Coercive unilateral measures such as sanctions, threats, military intervention, and even measures such as withdrawal from international tr...

The aim of this phenomenological research study carried out in Iran was to capture the meaning of patients' rights from the lived experiences of patients and their companions. To achieve this, 12 semistructured interviews were conducted during 2005 in a teaching hospital in Tehran with patients and/or their companions. In addition, extensive field notes were compiled during the interviews. The ...

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 ...