HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS, ECHR AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC: AN INTERPRETATION

Carlos Rodriguez () and Ana Campina ()
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Carlos Rodriguez: Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Ana Campina: Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

Perspectives of Law and Public Administration, 2021, vol. 10, issue 3, 180-191

Abstract: Health is a Human Right needing a permanent attention, study, and interpretation. As the conceptualization of Health is complex, the universality and legal recognition by the International Law has relevant perspectives and inherent consequences for the human beings, the States - political, economic, social, cultural – requiring a particular understanding and scientific interpretations. This research applied a qualitative method, but including an important study of statistics, so quantitative, by the Human Rights perspective, there is a health conceptual overview within the International, European Law, focus on the Portuguese legal study case. The European Convention on Human Rights (Council of Europe) has been used to tackle health as a right most different contexts, Portugal as a member is charged to protect the lives of all human beings of his jurisdiction, guaranteeing the right to health. This right is recognized by the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (1976), there is an important National Health Care System and Portugal is growing in compliance with the right to health in accordance with international standards.

Keywords: health; human rights; Constitution of the Portuguese Republic; national health care. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K33 K38 K40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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