Abstract
Objective: to analyze the application of the referential of the Patients' Human Rights, particularly the right to privacy, the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the right not to be discriminated against, as a tool to promote the quality of life of patients on palliation. Methods: this was a theoretical and documental research, based on the works of Albuquerque, Cohen and Ezer about the Patients' Human Rights, and on the documents referring to palliative care from the World Health Organization, the European Palliative Care Association, the International Palliative Care Association, the World Alliance for Palliative Care, the Prague Charter and the Observatory for Patients' Rights of the University of Brasília. Results: the increase in the number of people with diseases beyond the possibility of cure has provoked a remodeling in health care with a focus on improving quality of life, arising the need to implement palliative care, which in Brazil is still incipient for the demand. In Brazil, there are recent initiatives for the application of human rights to health care, using the referential of the Patients' Human Rights. Conclusion: to employ the referential of the Human Rights of Patients implies providing care centered on the patient, which is characterized as comprehensive and integral, directed to the quality of life of patients, meeting the objective of palliative care. Thus, it is possible to overcome the predominance of mechanized practice and rescue the value of human existence in its singularity.
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