Clinical nutrition and human rights. An international position paper

The International Working Group for Patients' Right to Nutritional Care presents its position paper regarding nutritional care as a human right intrinsically linked to the right to food and the right to health. All people should have access to food and evidence-based medical nutrition therapy including artificial nutrition and hydration. In this regard, the hospitalized malnourished ill should mandatorily have access to screening, diagnosis, nutritional assessment, with optimal and timely nutritional therapy in order to overcome malnutrition associated morbidity and mortality, while reducing the rates of disease-related malnutrition.

Source: Clinical Nutrition - May 19, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Diana Cardenas, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Juan B. Ochoa, Gil Hardy, Dolores Rodriguez-Ventimilla, Charles E. Berm údez, Karin Papapietro, Régis Hankard, André Briend, Winai Ungpinitpong, Katerina Mary Zakka, Teresa Pounds, Cristina Cuerda, Tags: Original article Source Type: research