Henriette Sinding Aasen

I første del beskriver vi de tre prioriteringskriteriene – nytte, ressurs og alvorlighet – og verdigrunnlaget de skal bidra til å realisere. Vi redegjør for rettslige rammer for prioritering og gir en innføring i helseøkonomi for prioritering. Andre del retter oppmerksomheten mot praksisfeltet, med kapitler om spesialist- og kommunehelsetjenestene, prioritering på klinisk nivå, og etiske utfordringer i prioritering i hverdagen i helsetjenesten. Boken er skrevet for studenter i helseledelse og ledere på alle nivåer i helsetjenesten. Andre målgrupper er helsepersonell som tar mastergrader og videreutdanninger som kvalifiserer til fagutviklings- og lederstillinger i helsetjenesten, medisinstudenter og studenter i andre helsefag. Boken gir også klinikere fra ulike profesjoner en effektiv innføring i prioritering. Ved å gi viktig kunnskap om prioritering er boken av stor relevans for pågående debatter om helsetjenesten.

'Health and human rights' is an important dimension of international and European human rights and health law. It is multi-disciplinary, engaging scholars and practitioners of public health and medicine, as well as legal scholars and human rights lawyers. Taking a 'health and human rights approach' means applying international, regional and domestic human rights law to a wide range of health-related issues. Human rights law informs other areas of law that engage with health issues, including international and domestic health law, biolaw and bioethics, patients' rights, and environmental law. It brings a new, and often more international, as well as a moral dimension to existing legal analyses of health issues. This is essential in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, where health concerns are omnipresent and can no longer be addressed solely at a domestic level. This book focuses on the legal interfaces between 'health' and 'human rights', taking both a global as well as a European approach. Globally, there are tremendous challenges when it comes to the protection of collective and individual health. Such challenges include weak (primary) healthcare systems, the spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and the increase of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), as well as the health effects of air pollution and climate change. In such settings, human rights can, potentially, play an important role in protecting the rights of vulnerable individuals. It is a compelling framework for assessing these and other questions in the health field, as it couples health-related problems with a legal and moral dimension. The international recognition and definition of the 'right to health' is at the centre of this, but there are many other relevant human rights standards, including the right to life, the right to respect for privacy and family life, and the right to have access to information. International case law in the health field has made its mark when it comes to matters like access to health services, abortion, and inhuman and degrading treatment in health settings. Increasingly, links are being sought between human rights and other international standards protecting health, in particular the standards adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO). The European context is, to some extent, a region sui generis, not only in terms of health issues and health outcomes, but also from a political and legal perspective. The authoritative case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of the Council of Europe has increasingly touched upon health-related issues. Health and Human Rights brings together contributions from human rights and health law experts from three different countries in Northern Europe. Together, the chapters give a rich account of the legal and interdisciplinary aspects and perspectives related to 'health and human rights'. This book is of interest to lecturers, students, practitioners and law- and policymakers and offers up-to-date analyses of crucial human rights issues in modern healthcare, practices and regulations in Europe and beyond.

I denne boken presenteres 29 fagfellevurderte bidrag som belyser et bredt spekter av problemstillinger innenfor de tre rettsfeltene likestilling mellom ulike samfunnsgrupper, barns rettsstilling og velferd i vid forstand. Boken utgis i anledning professor Gudrun Holgersens 70års-dag, og åpner for en perspektivrikdom som bare et voksende fagfellesskap med interesse for disse rettsfeltene kan frembringe. Innholdsfortegnelse: