Section: Module 2: Lesson 1: Medicine, Health and Human Rights | War and Health | NextGenU.org

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    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the relationships between health care, medicine, and human rights.
    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute):  
    3 hours and 34 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
      • Read Chapter 1 titled "I. What is the Right to Health?" (pages 3-11) to understand the relationship between health care and human rights, including how these two interact and are dependent upon each other.

      • Read this course to understand the relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights, as well as the ethical codes regulating the health professions. Understand the health worker's responsibility to promote and defend the right to health.

      • Scroll down and click on the link to download the article titled "Health and Human Rights" by Johnathan Mann et al.  Read this article to understand the relationship between health care and human rights. Understand how the potential collaboration between health care and human rights as well as the violations of human rights have impacts on health.

      • Read this article and learn about the ways in which human rights and public health have influenced the availability and definition of essential medicines.

    • Read "Key health risks" (pgs. 2-4).

    • Read the entire article.

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