The right to the highest attainable standard of health

Hunt, Paul; Backman, Gunilla; Mesquita, Judith Bueno de; Finer, Louise; Khosla, Rajat; Korljan, Dragana; Oldring, Lisa

doi:10.1093/med/9780199661756.003.0018

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“…In many low-income countries, numerous obstacles do exist to the provision of focused and quality ANC services. Similar to other developing countries, unsatisfactory proportion of women are receiving antenatal care from a trained health professional during their pregnancy time in Ethiopia [4–8]. This is often related to an insufficient number of skilled providers particularly in rural and remote areas, socio- economic and cultural influences are among important barriers.…”

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Assessment of focused antenatal care utilization and associated factors in Western Oromia, Nekemte, Ethiopia

Woyessa

Ahmed

2019

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Objective Despite the fact that quality antenatal care is one of the essential aspects in maternal and child health care, the current perceived quality and associated factors of this service is not well acknowledged in Ethiopia. This study was therefore undertaken to assess focused antenatal care service utilization and associated factors in western Ethiopia. Result This study has measured the utilization of focused antenatal care services in terms of regularity of frequency of attendance, initiation time and completeness of the components. In about 19.8% of mothers attendance was irregular. While than three-fourths 330 (78.6%) started in the second trimester, and 42 (10%) of them commenced in the third trimester. The essential components of the services like counseling on nutrition, family planning, and HIV/AIDS were respectively missing in 1.9%, 8.3% and 7.4% of clients. Providing and receiving quality ANC was found to have emanated from different factors which were related to mothers, providers and facilities. Although the overall ANC utilization noticed deceivingly seems satisfactory, it was not fully comprehensive, focused and not to its current standard. Further efforts in terms of effective planning, monitoring and evaluation activities on the service are therefore strongly recommended.

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Assessment of focused antenatal care utilization and associated factors in Western Oromia, Nekemte, Ethiopia

Woyessa

Ahmed

2019

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“…Accepting certain phenomena under the guise of cultural sensitivity or relativism is also problematic in a health care situation from an ethical perspective, if a patient first and foremost is seen as a member of a particular group rather than as an individual with needs and rights (Devillé et al, 2011). The right to (a broad definition of) health has been recognized as a universal human right (Hunt, 2007;Pillay, 2008). The resurgent focus on universal human (individual) rights in contrast to the postmodern cultural relativism is sometimes referred to as neo-modernism, where cultural practices respecting human rights are seen as morally superior to those that do not (Alexander, 1994).…”

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Applied cultural and social studies are needed for a sustainable reduction of genetic disease incidence

Staal

2017

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While clinical and basic biomedical research focus on diagnoses and cures for common and rare genetic diseases, they are unable to address one of the largest underlying causes for genetic disease: mating within families or other small genetically isolated sub-populations. This interdisciplinary literature study investigates theoretical, moral and practical aspects to solve this major cause for genetic disease from an alternative angle: through cultural change and encouragement of an outbreeding reproductive behavior. Understanding why some communities persist with choosing consanguineous reproductive partners when the modern society has eliminated the economic rationale to do so, and to develop strategies to encourage a cultural change in those communities, is critical for a sustainable long-term solution to reduce the number of new cases of genetic disease and undiagnosed (sub-clinical) but detrimental genetic abnormalities in vulnerable and marginalized groups in modern Western societies.

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“…The right to the conditions necessary to achieve the highest attainable standard of health -Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -is principally concerned with disadvantaged groups, participation, and accountability and lies at the heart of the health and human rights movement (Hunt, 2007). General Comment 14 (2000) is a substantive instrument which confirms that the right to the conditions for health not only encompasses access to health care, but also includes the underlying determinants of health, such as safe water, adequate sanitation, a healthy environment, health-related information, and freedom from discrimination (UN, 2000a).…”

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The right to the highest attainable standard of health

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Assessment of focused antenatal care utilization and associated factors in Western Oromia, Nekemte, Ethiopia

Assessment of focused antenatal care utilization and associated factors in Western Oromia, Nekemte, Ethiopia

Applied cultural and social studies are needed for a sustainable reduction of genetic disease incidence

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