IMPACT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Impact of Human Rights on Health Law Improvement



Impact of Human Rights on Health Law Improvement

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of human rights on health law Improvement. This paper makes a discussion on the claim that there is a little impact of human rights claims in terms of substantive law, procedure or levels of damages in the field of health law.

Discussion

Human Rights

Human rights are rights that individuals have simply by virtue of being human. These rights are considered to be universal, unconditional rights that states, governments, and private actors are required to respect. There are various types of rights, classified under the rubric of 'generations' of civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, and solidarity rights. As the rights have become codified in various international instruments, this has resulted in the clarification of the norms and has led to the establishment of enforcement techniques.

Health Law

Health care is a sector which consists of approximately 1/9 of United Kingdom's economy and is a highly regulated and complex market. This sector continuously face the different challenges that arise from the public and private payers, the manufacturers of medicines also suppliers of medicines and the state and federal government. In order to meet these challenges and face them, health law has been introduced almost 25 years before, keeping in view the importance of health legislations in the health care field. There are different basis and components of health law. In other words, we can say that health law consists of different concepts like contract, criminal and administrative, tort and corporate, which helps in making the foundation of health problems. The main purpose of the health law is to solve the problems that arise in the health industry and give the health sector a flawless look.

There is a constant change in the background of the healthcare industry. Therefore, it is a necessity for health lawyers to keep themselves updated for the different fields of healthcare like fraud and abuse. Due to the changing trends in the healthcare industry, it is necessary for the lawyers to keep themselves updated and get all the knowledge which is relevant to healthcare field. They should be well informed and should have the complete knowledge about the healthcare areas like federal and state governmental coverage, hospital-physician relations, mental health, coding and reimbursement issues, healthcare financial transactions and patient privacy regulations. It is the responsibility of a healthcare lawyer to make client representation in different fields like securities, litigation, corporate, contracts, administrative and tax. Their job is also to tackle the different issues arising in the sector of ethical and bioethical issues which includes professional ethics violation, rights of patients and human research protocols.

The representation of healthcare lawyers is spread in a wide range of health care organizations; they have to deal in various areas like in-house general counsel and complex matters. Therefore, the main task of the health lawyers is to depict the different types of clients and solve the ...