Sökning: "Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

1. 1. Assessing Capacity to Decide on Medical Treatment: On Human Rights and the Use of Medical Knowledge in the Laws of England, Russia and Sweden

   Författare :Yana Litins'ka; Anna-Sara Lind; Lena Wahlberg; Mette Hartlev; Offentlig rätt; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legal capacity; Mental capacity; Decison-making capacity; Capacity assessment; Medical treatment; Consent; Refusal; Right to privacy; Right to life; Discrimination; Right to health; Disability; Decision-making; CRPD; ECHR; Human rights; Mental disorder; English law; Russian law; Swedish law; Somatic care; Psychiatric care; Medicinsk rätt; beslutsförmåga; beslutskompetens; samtycke; vägran; Psykiatrisk vård; Äldre; funktionshinder; Europakonventionen; konventionen om rättigheter för personer med funktionsnedsättning; psykisk störning; Ryssland; England; Sverige; rätten till privatliv; Rätten till liv; Rätten till hälsa; Diskriminering; Komparativ rätt; Mänskliga rättigheter; vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet; legal capacity; Medicinsk rätt;

   Sammanfattning : To provide a valid consent to – or refusal of – medical intervention, a patient must be legally capable to decide. This dissertation evaluates and compares when the assessment of mental abilities to refuse – or consent to – somatic medical intervention is required in England, Russia and Sweden, and what criteria must be applied to assess the ability to decide about somatic medical interventions in these legal orders. LÄS MER

3. 2. Which Entitlements and for Whom? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Ideological Antecedents

   Författare :Anna Bruce; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ICIDH; the International Classification of Impairments Disabilities and Handicaps; the right to health; human rights law; impairment; disability; CRPD; The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Social Model of Disability; the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health; ICF; the Minority Group Model of Disability;

   Sammanfattning : The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN in 2006, represents the coming of age of a human rights approach to disability. In doing so, it provides answers to the questions what ‘disability’ is, who ‘persons with disabilities’ are and what entitlements are legitimate and relevant in relation to ‘disability’. LÄS MER

4. 3. Assistive technology, human rights and poverty in developing countries. Perspectives based on a study in Bangladesh

   Författare :Johan Borg; Socialmedicin och global hälsa; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; disability; developing countries; assistive technology; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; human rights; low-income countries; poverty;

   Sammanfattning : Deprived of human rights, more than half of all people with disabilities in developing countries live in extreme poverty. Although considered a prerequisite for equalization of opportunities, about nine out of ten of those who need assistive technologies do not have access to them. LÄS MER

5. 4. Minding Equality: Compulsory Mental Health Interventions and the CRPD : Compulsory Mental Health Interventions and the CRPD

   Författare :Anna Nilsson; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; CRPD; mental health law; compulsory psychiatric care; discrimination; equal treatment; proportionality; Robert Alexy; public international law; human rights; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; CRPD; diskriminering; likabehandling; Robert Alexy; proportionalitet; folkrätt; mänskliga rättigheter;

   Sammanfattning : This study delineates the permissible scope for compulsory mental health interventions under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It was initially triggered by two competing positions within the current debate over the future of coercive psychiatry; a practice that is still omnipresent among states worldwide. LÄS MER

7. 5. Prosthetic and Orthotic Services in Developing Countries

   Författare :Lina Magnusson; Gerd Ahlström; Malcom MacLachlan; Jönköping University; []
   Nyckelord :Assistive device; Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities; disability; low-income countries; mobility; orthosis; prosthesis; satisfaction; QUEST;

   Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to generate further knowledge about prosthetic and orthotic services in developing countries. In particular, the thesis focused on patient mobility and satisfaction with prosthetic and orthotic devices, satisfaction with service delivery, and the views of staff regarding clinical practice and education. LÄS MER