The fundamental right to health care

A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
Peer-reviewed. Indexed in Medline, PubMed, The Philosopher’s Index, Scopus.

ISSN: 0975-5691 (Online); 0974-8466 (Print) RNI Reg No. MAHENG/2016/67188


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1.	Title	Title of document	The fundamental right to health care

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	K Mathiharan; Institute of Legal Medicine, New No. 53, Fifth Street, Padmanaba Nagar, Adyar, Chennai 600020; IN

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4.	Description	Abstract	India is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Supreme Court held that Article 21 of the Constitution of India in relation to human rights has to be interpreted in conformity with international law. Further, Article 25 [2] of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 7 (b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have been cited by the Supreme Court while upholding the right to health by a worker.

5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Forum for Medical Ethics Society

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2016-11-30

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10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://ijme.in/articles/the-fundamental-right-to-health-care/

11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics;: The state of the medical profession

12.	Language	English=en	en

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