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A Right to Access to Emergency Health Care: The European Court of Human Rights Pushes the Envelope
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Abstract This article argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) seems to have recently acknowledged that there is a right to access to emergency health care in the member states of the Council of Europe. The Chamber of the ECtHR found that a state’s failure to design a regulatory framework that ... mehr
This article argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) seems to have recently acknowledged that there is a right to access to emergency health care in the member states of the Council of Europe. The Chamber of the ECtHR found that a state’s failure to design a regulatory framework that guarantees access to health care in emergency situations violates the substantial limb of Article 2 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that protects the right to life. It is argued that the newly established requirements seem to be reasonable but that there seem to be no sufficient safeguards to ensure that the ECtHR does not substitute its own assessment for that of medical professionals.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Menschenrechtskonvention; Europarat; Gesundheitsversorgung; medizinische Versorgung; Menschenrechte
Klassifikation
Recht
Freie Schlagwörter
Access to Urgent Health Care; European Court of Human Rights; Positive Obligations; Right to Life; Article 2 ECHR; Maternity Health Care
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 693-702
Zeitschriftentitel
Medical Law Review, 26 (2017) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwx059
ISSN
1464-3790
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung