Category: Healthcare

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Conflicting Concerns of Mobility and Health Rights in Emergencies- Where an Ethical Blueprint Fit?

Forthcoming Article

Research paper titled “CONFLICTING CONCERNS OF MOBILITY AND HEALTH RIGHTS IN EMERGENCIES- WHERE AN ETHICAL BLUEPRINT FIT?”

Abstract: In times of health emergencies, such as the outbreak of a communicable disease, there are issues in law and ethics that are raised. This include, the need to maintain the dignity of those affected, ramping up measures to ensure the protection of health rights, and whether there is a justification for restricting movement given the risk of infection but taking cognisance of the economic implication. Policymakers and health professionals will be faced with the decision of how to maintain conduct so as not to undermine these rights, but also ensure safety.

IJSRP Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2020 edition

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On demystifying rights phenomenology, aiding and constructing meaning that advances the well-being of people 

[Abstract] What constitute ‘rights’ raises several complexities, such as whether we connote natural right, human right, legal right or perhaps merely being right. Rights may also simultaneously invoke themes of liberty, immunity, power, priviledge. Some theorists suggest a classification based on the question of a correlative duty or enforceability.



I suggest we understand rights as a concept that carries with it an original meaning that we have to interpret in terms of its history and broadness. Rights could be analysed as a derivative of natural law, but also a creation of positive law- I argue however, whatever ascription we construct rights to be it has to be such that takes a perspective that prioritises the welfare and dignity of people, and recognises that certain rights to individuals are intrinsic and inalienable, and such to be protected, not deviated from.



Source: Israel Okunwaye, ” A Jurisprudential Quagmire on Definition of ‘Rights’-  Human or Legal, Both or Neither? To What Divine and Constructive Purpose in Society?” (2017) 4(2) ijlljs 23.

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Medical perspective on Zika virus- curtailing infection and awareness

Short Answers to Hard Questions About Zika Virus

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The Zika virus has been linked to unusually small heads and brain damage in newborns — called microcephaly — in children born to infected mothers, as well as blindness, deafness, seizures and other congenital defects.

 



In adults, the virus is linked to a form of temporary paralysis, called Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Find questions raised here.. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/health/what-is-zika-virus.html?_r=0

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS and NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR UPDATED July 29, 2016 New York Times

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