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A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions
National constitutions are important tools for the realization of the right to health, and constitutional law linking health and human rights has been associated with improved access to health resources. Meanwhile, emergency care is a lifesaving service delivery platform with the potential to addres...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966235 |
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author | Burkholder, Taylor W. Ross, Madeline Vartanyan, Lily Bergquist, Harveen |
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description | National constitutions are important tools for the realization of the right to health, and constitutional law linking health and human rights has been associated with improved access to health resources. Meanwhile, emergency care is a lifesaving service delivery platform with the potential to address much of the death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet even where services exist, access to emergency care may be systematically limited for vulnerable populations, except where laws explicitly protect the right to emergency care. We therefore sought to catalog and describe constitutional provisions related to emergency care. Through a comprehensive review of 195 national constitutions, we searched provisions for terms related to emergency care and performed qualitative framework analysis on these provisions. Eleven provisions met inclusion criteria, representing ten LMICs with constitutions written since 1996. While seven of the eleven provisions guarantee access to emergency care to all people, three narrow this guarantee to citizens only. Only three constitutions address the affordability of emergency care. While these constitutional provisions represent an important step toward the legal guarantee of access to emergency care for all people, further attention must be paid to the impact of such laws and regulation on the accessibility of emergency care and its related reduction of death and disability globally. |
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spelling | pubmed-86943072021-12-28 A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions Burkholder, Taylor W. Ross, Madeline Vartanyan, Lily Bergquist, Harveen Health Hum Rights Research-Article National constitutions are important tools for the realization of the right to health, and constitutional law linking health and human rights has been associated with improved access to health resources. Meanwhile, emergency care is a lifesaving service delivery platform with the potential to address much of the death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet even where services exist, access to emergency care may be systematically limited for vulnerable populations, except where laws explicitly protect the right to emergency care. We therefore sought to catalog and describe constitutional provisions related to emergency care. Through a comprehensive review of 195 national constitutions, we searched provisions for terms related to emergency care and performed qualitative framework analysis on these provisions. Eleven provisions met inclusion criteria, representing ten LMICs with constitutions written since 1996. While seven of the eleven provisions guarantee access to emergency care to all people, three narrow this guarantee to citizens only. Only three constitutions address the affordability of emergency care. While these constitutional provisions represent an important step toward the legal guarantee of access to emergency care for all people, further attention must be paid to the impact of such laws and regulation on the accessibility of emergency care and its related reduction of death and disability globally. Harvard University Press 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8694307/ /pubmed/34966235 Text en Copyright © 2021 Burkholder, Ross, Vartanyan, and Bergquist. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Burkholder, Taylor W. Ross, Madeline Vartanyan, Lily Bergquist, Harveen A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title | A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title_full | A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title_fullStr | A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title_full_unstemmed | A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title_short | A Global Review of Provisions on Emergency Care in National Constitutions |
title_sort | global review of provisions on emergency care in national constitutions |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966235 |
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