Section: Module 2: Medicine, Health and Human Rights | War and Health | NextGenU.org

  • Competency covered in this module:
    • Understand the relationships between health care, medicine, and human rights.

    • After reading the resources and completing the activity in this module, you will have a better understanding of the relationship between health care and human rights. 

      You will also become familiar with basic international humanitarian law, human rights, and the ethical codes that regulate health professions. Module 2 consists of one lesson, with its own resources, an activity, and a quiz.

    • Module 2: Lesson 1: Medicine, Health and Human Rights
       
      Student Learning Objectives:

      Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:

      • Understand the relationships between health care, medicine, and human rights.

      Approximate time required to complete the readings (at 144 words/minute) and assignments for this module: 3 hours and 34 minutes.

       
      Required Learning Resources and Activities
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      The Right to Health: Fact Sheet No. 31 URL
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      • Read Chapter 1 titled "I. What is the Right to Health?" (pages 3-11) to understand the relationship between health care and human rights, including how these two interact and are dependent upon each other.

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      MPW course 2: Medicine, health and human rights URL
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      • Read this course to understand the relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights, as well as the ethical codes regulating the health professions. Understand the health worker's responsibility to promote and defend the right to health.

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      Health and Human Rights (in the Health and Human Rights Journal - Volume 1 Issue 1) URL
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      • Scroll down and click on the link to download the article titled "Health and Human Rights" by Johnathan Mann et al.  Read this article to understand the relationship between health care and human rights. Understand how the potential collaboration between health care and human rights as well as the violations of human rights have impacts on health.

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      Essential medicines and human rights: What can they learn from each other? URL
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      • Read this article and learn about the ways in which human rights and public health have influenced the availability and definition of essential medicines.

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      Ukraine crisis Public Health Situation Analysis – Refugee-hosting countries 17 March 2022 File
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      Read "Key health risks" (pgs. 2-4).

      1.6 MB
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      Russia's War in Ukraine- The Devastation of Health and Human Rights URL
      Students must
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      Read the entire article.

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      Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1
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      Receive a grade
      Receive a passing grade

      To access the quiz, click on the name of the quiz provided above. On the following screen, click the attempt quiz button to view the case studies and respond to the questions.

      TO PASS THIS QUIZ YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%.