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Health Hum Rights
June 2023
Lecturer on law and senior fellow on global health and rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; adjunct senior lecturer on health policy and management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and senior advisor on health policy and human rights at Partners In Health, Boston, United States.
After considerable progress in recent decades, maternal mortality and morbidity (MMM) either stagnated or worsened in most regions of the globe between 2016 and 2020. The world should be outraged given that we have known the key interventions necessary for preventing MMM for over three-quarters of a century. Since the 1990s, human rights advocacy on MMM has gained crucial ground, demonstrating that entitlements related to maternal health are judicially enforceable and delineating rights-based approaches to health in the context of MMM.
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March 2019
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Objectives: We examined public reaction to the proposed Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule reimbursing physicians for advanced care planning (ACP) discussions with patients.
Methods: Public comments made on regulations.gov were reviewed for relevance to ACP policy and their perceived position on ACP (ie, positive, negative and neutral).
Twenty physicians, 19 registered nurses (RN), and 20 enrolled nurses (EN) working in surgical care in Sweden narrated their experiences of being in ethically difficult care situations. All three professional groups disclosed a strong wish to help patients. The narrations of the physicians and the ENs indicated that they were very much involved in their patients, while most of the RNs' stories were narrated from a distanced onlooker's perspective and disclosed a lot of moral outrage, mainly directed towards physicians.
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