Right to health

The research for the investigation knowledge and understanding the right to health project was undertaken by independent researcher Helen Oxley. The report includes input from organisations representing several population groups and explores the limitations in accessing information about the right to health, alongside challenges in claiming and complaining about rights and barriers for specific groups in achieving equal access to the highest attainable standard of health.

Watch this video with BSL interpretation, which gives and overview of the research and findings undertaken in the report:

Following the publication of this report, we worked as part of the Health and Human Rights Partnership to undertake research to look at rights-based decision-making across healthcare settings. The report Health and human rights: Rights-based decision-making in healthcare settings delivers on one of the actions in SNAP 2 (Scotland’s second National Human Rights Action Plan), this preliminary mapping exercise identifies real world examples of rights-based decision making in healthcare settings. It also contains a Rights Based Decision Making Flowchart (and guidance), which demonstrates how a human rights-based approach to decision making can be implemented in practice. This research formed part of a suite of tools to support rights-based policy and practice.

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