192 judgments found.

Kozhokar v. Russia

Country: Russia
Year: 2010
Court: The European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Application no. 33099/08, ECHR 2010
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Diet and nutrition, Health care and health services, HIV/AIDS, Hospitals, Infectious diseases, Medicines, Prisons
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to bodily integrity
Facts:

This case is about the conditions of the applicant’s detention and the sufficiency of his medical care while he was detained in remand centre no. IZ-71/1 and correctional colony no. 7 in the Tula region of the Russian Federation. On 18 October 2006, the applicant, a Russian national, was arrested for drug trafficking. He was …Read more

Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, Antiretrovirals, ARVs, Clinics, Compensation, Cruel treatment, Custody, Degrading treatment, Detainee, Detention, Diagnostics, Diet, Duty of care, Essential medicines, Examination, Food, Health facilities, Hepatitis PLHIV, HIV, HIV positive, HIV status, Humiliating treatment, Imprisonment, Inadequate treatment, Incarceration, Inhuman treatment, Inmate, Jail, Liver disease, Malnutrition, People living with HIV/AIDS, Prison conditions, Public hospitals, Remedies, Standard of care, Testing, Torture, Tuberculosis
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Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Harinagar Hospital & Ors

Country: India
Year: 2010
Court: High Court - Delhi
Citation: [2010] INDLHC 2983
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Diet and nutrition, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Poverty, Sexual and reproductive health
Human Rights: Right to food, Right to health, Right to life
Facts:

This case deals with two petitions, Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Hari Nagar Hospital and Jaitun v. Maternity Home, MCD, Jungpura. Shanti Devi, Laxmi Mandal’s (the Petitioner) sister, died shortly after giving birth to a premature baby. This was her sixth pregnancy. The previous pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Shanti Devi was not provided with any …Read more

Tags: Children, Family planning, Infant health, Infant mortality, Malnutrition, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Minor, Public hospitals
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Re Assisted Human Reproduction Act

Country: Canada
Year: 2010
Court: The Supreme Court of Canada
Citation: 2010 SCC 61
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Sexual and reproductive health
Human Rights: Right to bodily integrity, Right to family life, Right to health
Facts:

The Attorney General (AG) of Quebec challenged the constitutionality of sections 8 to 19, 40 to 53, 60, 61 and 68 of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act (the “Act”) on federalism grounds. Some of these provisions create or relate to prohibitions on human cloning and various aspects of the commercialization of reproductive materials and functions. …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Access to treatment, Assisted reproductive technology, Childbirth, Clinics, Criminalization, Family planning, Fertility, Health care technology, Health facilities, Health regulation, In utero fertilization, In vitro fertilization, Infertility, Pregnancy, Private hospitals, Public hospitals
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A. Arul v. State of Tamil Nadu

Country: India
Year: 2009
Court: High Court - Madras
Citation: Writ Petition No.496 OF 2005
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
Facts:

A. Arul, the Petitioner, was a government employee who incurred medical expenses as a result of surgery for his wife. The Petitioner had previously contributed to the Government Employees Health Fund, which was set up to extend grants to remedies not available in the government hospital. The State of Tamil Nadu and others Respondents, failed …Read more

Tags: Access to treatment, Private hospitals, Public hospitals, Reimbursement
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All India Lawyers Union v. Government of NCT of Delhi and Others

Country: India
Year: 2009
Court: High Court - Delhi
Citation: WP(C) No.5410/199
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Poverty
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
Facts:

In 1986, the Delhi Capital Government (“GNCTD”) decided to convert the vacant Players’ Building into a multi-specialty hospital on a ‘no profit, no loss’ basis and invited offers from private institutions. GNTCD issued a notice stating that the vacant building along with the land was to be made available free of cost provided that the …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Health facilities, Health funding, Health spending, Indigent, Low income, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Poor, Private hospitals, Public hospitals, Secondary care, Subsidies, Underprivileged
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Case 0012-09-SIS-CC, Case 0007-09-IS

Country: Ecuador
Year: 2009
Court: Constitutional Court [Corte Constitutcional]
Citation: Corte Constitucional Judgment N. 0012-09-SIS-CC, Case No. 0007-09-IS, October 8, 2009.
Health Topics: Aging, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to social security
Facts:

This case addressed an individual’s right to health care and reimbursement for health services from the National Social Security Institute (Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social, IESS) as a type of retirement benefit.  The action was specifically filed against Econ. Fernando Guijarro Cabezas, General Director of IESS. This case was filed against Ecuador’s Social Security Institute …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Aged persons, Emergency care, Health insurance, Older persons, Public hospitals, Reimbursement, Senior citizens, Social security
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Case 1-27/2009

Country: Ukraine
Year: 2009
Court: Turiyskiy District Court
Citation: Case No. 1-27/2009
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Medical malpractice
Human Rights: Right to health
Facts:

On 27 August 2003, the defendant doctor, who had worked as an infectious disease physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Kovel central regional hospital, examined her patient who was showing signs of  respiratory and cardiac failure. The defendant doctor left her patient in this critical health condition without taking the appropriate medical measures …Read more

Tags: Access to treatment, Child mortality, Children, Duty of care, Emergency care, Examination, Health care professionals, Health care workers, Health facilities, Heart disease, Inadequate treatment, Inappropriate treatment, Minor, Negligence, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pediatric health, Public hospitals, Pulmonary diseases, Respiratory diseases
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Case 2-88-09

Country: Russia
Year: 2009
Court: Moscow District Court
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Medical malpractice
Human Rights: Right to health
Facts:

The applicant R.A. injured his right ankle joint when ice skating on January 4th, 2008.  He went to an emergency room at the defendant’s Medical Healthcare Institution ”G” (“MHI ‘G’”) in order to receive care.  However, a doctor there only examined his ankle with her hands, and diagnosed a ligament sprain in the right joint, …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Access to treatment, Compensation, Damages, Diagnostics, Emergency care, Examination, Health care professionals, Health care workers, Health facilities, Health insurance, Inadequate treatment, Inappropriate treatment, Misdiagnosis, Negligence, Police, Public hospitals
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Case 2009-170

Country: Belgium
Year: 2009
Court: Constitutional Court [Court Constiutionelle]
Citation: No. 4607. C. C., n°2009-170, 29 October 2009
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination
Facts:

The applicants were two, non-authorized physicians registered with the Saint-Vincent-Sainte-Elisabeth Hospital Center. Non-authorized physicians, unlike authorized physicians, work in private settings and do not fall within the public national healthcare system. The applicants challenged the constitutionality of Article 46 of a 2006 law passed on health provisions, in that it treated authorized and non-authorized doctors …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Emergency care, Examination, Health insurance, Health regulation, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Private hospitals, Public hospitals, Social security, Testing Health facilities
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Case 2009-584 DC

Country: France
Year: 2009
Court: Conseil constitutionnel [Constitutional Council]
Citation: C. C., n°2009-584 DC, 16 July 2009
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health information, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Medicines, Mental health
Human Rights: Right to health
Facts:

This case concerned a constitutional challenge to Articles 1, 10, 23, 84, 91 and 133 of law no.  2009-879 of July 21 2009, Loi portant réforme de l’hôpital et relative aux patients, à la santé et aux territoires (Law reforming hospitals and relating to patients, health and the territories) (the Law) in the Conseil Constitutionnel. …Read more

Tags: Access to health care, Employment, Health care professionals, Health care workers, Health education, Health funding, Health regulation, Pharmaceuticals, Private hospitals, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public hospitals
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