Summer school on Health law and ethics, 27 June -8 July 2011.
The Erasmus Observatory on Health law (Erasmus University Rotterdam) announces the Annual Summer School programme on Health law, providing health professionals and practitioners, with an opportunity for intensive training in various aspects of health law and ethics over a two-weeks period, while absorbing the sights, sounds and culture unique to Rotterdam and The Netherlands. The Summer School offers a custom-developed course taught by leading academics in their field.
The courses are designed to enhance the preparation of health professionals confronted with legal and ethical issues. The course focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of health law and ethics.
A Certificate of Attendance will be presented to participants who wish to take courses for academic credit.
Course Descriptions
The actual course schedule and offerings are subject to change. Please check the Observatory's Web site for the latest information.
Human Rights and Health
Introduces students to the substance and theory of human rights law in health care. Exploring the linkage between human rights, health care (policy), and international law, the course examines the right to health vis-à-vis other human rights, as framed by international treaties and covenants. The course considers case studies and issues, focusing on the triangular relationship in health care (patient-doctor-purchaser).
Sexual and Reproductive Health
This course focuses on statutory and case law on human reproduction, critiqued from numerous points of view. We will spend considerable time on contraception and abortion. For context, we will review the history of the ability to control reproduction and attempts to regulate it in Europe and abroad. Legal issues presented by new technologies including cloning, surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering will also be examined.
Public Health
Provides an overview of basic public health principles and the governing law. The course examines the legal basis for public health regulation and explores the tensions among public health activities, civil liberties, property rights, and other significant interests. The course also examines current policy issues, including immunization, bioterrorism, forced medical treatment, disease reporting and surveillance, infectious disease control, and tobacco regulation.
Bio ethics and Law
Students explore issues arising from advances in biological science and technology as they impact on the legal rights and responsibilities of patients, health providers, and government policy makers. Issues explored range from legal and ethical dilemmas in the treatment of individuals to broader societal issues dealing with the allocation of health care resources.
Essential Medicines
Essential Medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. This module explains the WHO essential medicines concept and how it will be used to promote universal access and patient-centered health care for all. Furthermore, how the essential medicines programme and pharmaceutical policy can support the achievement of the health-related Millenium Development Goals by assisting governments to ensure equitable access to effective medicines of assured quality.
Contact information
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