JJUA55136U Health and Human Rights
The course is centered around the right to health as protected in human rights law. As the right to health is closely related to other human rights, such as the right to food, adequate standard of living, education and information, right to life, freedom of speech/right to information, right to privacy, etc) it touches upon broad areas of human rights law both at international, regional and national level. The course will be structured around the UN Sustainable development goals (SDG). The “Good health and wellbeing” is listed as SDG 3, but a number of the other goals are also closely related to the right to health, and will be explored during the course.
The first part of the course will be dedicated to give the students comprehensive knowledge and competences in general health and human rights issues (the right to health as a human right, related rights (the other SDG’s such as right to food, clean water and sanitation etc), social determinants of health, equality in health, progressive realization and core basket, rights to medicine, justiciability/access to justice (Regional Courts, UN monitoring committees), relation between human rights, patients’ rights and public health law. The last part of the course will focus on a number of more specific issues including vulnerable groups (children, elderly persons, persons with disability), human rights and life-style diseases, reproductive rights, end-of-life- decisions, human rights and new health technologies, and workshops preparing the students to write the independent assignment for the exam.
The course builds upon the mandatory BA-courses in Public international law, EU-law, Fundamental Rigts of the Individual and Administrative law. It relates, furthermore, to the elective BA-courses Health law and Discrimination and Equality Law. Basic knowledge of international human rights law (e.g. from International Human Rights Law, or Health Law) is an advantage, but not a necessity.
Knowledge: Students can
- describe and explain how the right to health
and related human rights are protected in international, regional
and national law
- describe and explain the character and
functioning of the international and regional humanrights
mechanisms and their importance for access to justice
- describe and explain the special status of
vulnerable persons in health and human rights law
- describe and explain a human rights based
approach to health
Skills:
- Identify and explain the realtion between
health and human rights law and the UN Sustainable Development
Goals
- Make a comparative analysis of particular health and
human rights topics
- Make an assessment of the compliance of national law
with human rights law
- Critically reflect upon how global, regional and
national enforcement mechanisms addresses various health and human
rights-related topics
- Identify and critically discuss the distinction
between soft and hard law in international and regional human
rights law
- Identify the strenth and weaknesesses in the relation
between public health law and health and human rights law
Competences:
- Make a thorough analyses of complex issues in
international, regional and national human rights law
- Give advice on how to improve compliance with
international and regional human rights law
Brigit Toebes (ed:), "Health and Human Rights", Intersentia 2012 Supplementary material provided in Absalon
In total 750 pages
After the first 6 weeks the students are encouraged to write a (voluntary) abstract on one of the topics explored in the first part of the course, and they will receive individual written feedback from the teacher.
To prepare for the exam paper there will be a workshop where the students will present and discuss their topic and work on a research question in groups (with feedback from both peers and the teacher).
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 356,5
- Seminar
- 56
- Total
- 412,5
During the course we will use several forms of feedback (written/oral, individual/collective, , feedback from peers and from the teacher.
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For further
information
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examinationIndividual written assignment
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
January 12, 2018
- Re-exam
February 23, 2018
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- JJUA55136U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- Please see schedule for teaching time
- Continuing and further education
- Price
DKK 15.000
- Study board
- Law
Contracting department
- Law
Course Coordinators
- Mette Hartlev (13-5169787869324c65767870697a446e7976326f7932686f)