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Summer school on Health Law and Ethics, 18 - 29 June 2012, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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.
Bioethics and the 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 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.
Registration Health care rationing Conference, 9 – 10 December 2010, Rotterdam,The Netherlands Aim of conference Speakers Conference structure Each conference day will open and close with plenary sessions with keynote presentations and debate. During each day, the conference will host parallel sessions addressing the defined questions. A special poster session for young researchers is planned for Friday 10 December. There will be a speakers’ dinner on the evening of Thursday 9 December. The conference language is English. Venue & Fee Organizers Research Seminar September 29th 2010
On 11 August 2000 the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights published General Comment 14 on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. To date this is the most authoritative interpretation on the Right to health. General Comment 14 has challenged our conception of the right to health and human rights more generally in numerous ways. Protection for example goes beyond ‘clinical’ matters and extends to underlying social determinants of health care which range from water through to housing. Effectively General Comment 14 directly links the right to health with the enjoyment of other Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR). In addition the Committee considers health from various ‘need’ perspectives. Thus the Committee takes the traditional doctor-patient relationship into account when it considers issues such as privacy. It also takes into account clearly connected yet previously viewed as exclusively external relationships which all impact on the right holders capacity to enjoy the right to health, for example international co-operation and assistance, economic sanctions and trade or other activities. Finally, General Comment 14 introduces the idea that the right to health is also a right of the ‘collective’ and not just the individual, a proposition which is not without some controversy. To sum up, in broad terms General Comment 14 presents timely and intriguing legal and social questions which can be grouped into two broad thematic foci. In particular it raises issues of normative standards and enforcement mechanisms. In the all embracing spirit of General Comment 14 this Seminar is intended not just for right to health specialists but is intended to be relevant to all activists, researchers and academics interested in ESCR - Sessions I and II. Session III is an opportunity for researchers and students interested in ESCR to meet and to discuss the establishment of more regular meetings and other forms of collaboration through the setting up of a working group on ESCR.
Speakers of the Summer School 2010We're proud to announce that we already have the confirmation of all speakers fo r the summer school 2010. Click here for the preliminary program.
The success of the Summer School in 2009 has convinced the Observatory even more to make it an annual tradition. Therefore we are happy to announce the dates of the Summer School 2010, which are the 5th until the 16th of July. Click here for the flyer of this year's summer school. New Master of Science: Health LawThe Erasmus Observatory on Health Law is proud to announce a new Master of Science program at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Upcoming collegeyear 2010/2011 a Master of Science in Health Law is available. We expect to have a fruitful connection with this program, as its relevance lies in matters of life & death (euthanasia), medical liability, disfunctioning specialists and scarcity & distrubution in health care (donorship shortage). These topics are the essence of our Observatory and therefor we look forward engaging input as well as output in the program. Click here to see Prof. Martin Buijsen & Dr. Andre den Exter about this program. International conference on Healthcare & Trade 2009The Observatory is proud to announce the upcoming international conference on Healthcare & Trade. The International Conference on Healthcare and Trade will focus on the influence of the law of both the European Union and the World Trade Organization on trade in health services, health insurance services and health goods (pharmaceuticals). The application of the EC Treaty, the GATS and the TRIPS to national regulation of health services, health insurance services and pharmaceuticals raises questions of applicability of, compatibility with and possible exceptions to the provisions of these instruments. In these areas, these questions have not yet been answered conclusively and further research and discussion in this area is ongoing. The conference aims to contribute to the discussion, attempting to formulate both legal and economic answers to these questions. Please see the event section for the registration form and the program. Lecture Materials Summer School 6-17 JulyHere you can find powerpoint presentations that are given by several speakers of the Summer School. Please keep an eye on this page, because materials shall be added frequently.
Speakers of the Summer School 2009We're proud to announce that we already have the confirmation of all speakers fo r the summer school 2009. Click here for the preliminary program.
Announcements of the HR & Biomedicine conference 2008After three intensive days of interesting lectures and discussions, we're proud of the results of the international conference on Human Rights & Biomedicine. In Spring 2009 the conference book shall be published, but for now, you can find several presentations of speakers and poster presentations of participants online.
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