Page 131 - Human Rights

Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

Access to independent complaint mechanisms and external monitoring bodies is essential to

ensure that abuse is identified and addressed promptly

4.5 Patients’ Rights in Modern Societies.

Over the past few years, health systems have undergone considerable progress, especially with
respect to their management models.

In fact, the resources that citizens provide for the health sector are already considerable in most

countries.

Therefore, the economic and financial sustainability of the system should be considered one of

the top priorities of any society.

Nevertheless, generating efficiency in this sector to ensure its future viability cannot be an

objective that is oblivious to the core values of pluralistic societies.

Since healthcare access is considered a basic right, any structural reform of the health system must
be based on the primacy of the human person along with fundamental rights (Nunes et al. 2017).

Equity in access, nondiscrimination, and quality of care, among other factors, are the faces of a

polyhedron that is undergoing constant evolution to adapt to the profound transformations in the

health system (Buchanan 2000).

Therefore, it is necessary to redefine the framework of patients’ rights in healthcare services and
to make this framework more robust in the face of resource scarcity demonstrated in all societies.

In other words, it is important to ensure that every individual has the right of universal and equal

access to the public healthcare system, to ensure adequate standards of quality, and to ensure

the legitimate rights and interests of all users.

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