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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

Economic factors:

The quality of nursing care reflects issues such as staffing levels, availability and maintenance of

equipment, and of accommodation for patients and staff.

Where funding is not made available at the level necessary for effective care patients will receive

inferior attention and nurses are likely to receive inadequate salaries and conditions.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has stated that “insufficient

expenditure or misallocation of public resources which results in the non-enjoyment of the right
to health by individuals or groups, particularly the vulnerable or marginalized” is a violation of the

obligation to fulfil right to health.

Lack of training:

Nurses and midwives will provide care that reflects their training.

Where training has been under-funded or has failed to meet appropriate standards, nurses (and

patients) will be disadvantaged.

The CESCR similarly emphasizes that a part of the duty to fulfil the obligation to give sufficient

recognition to the right to health, states have to ensure the sufficient training of health personnel.

nurses, from uneven distribution of nurses within a country, from resignations of nurses to take

up other employment (or to retire) or can reflect the emigration of nurses to other countries

where they seek better prospects.

Availability of trained medical personnel is an important element of the realization of right to
health.

Nurse burnout:

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