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Ethnic minority and their knowledge about their human health rights: evidence from a national survey in Peru
This study aims to evaluate the association between ethnic minority membership and their knowledge about their human health rights in Peru. A secondary analysis of the National Health User Satisfaction Survey 2015–2016 was conducted using an analytical cross-sectional design. Participants who spoke Quechua, Aymara, Awajun, Bora or a language other than Spanish aged 15 year were considered as a racial minority. The question “Do you know that by law you have health rights?” was applied to incorporate knowledge on health rights. Generalized linear models of the Poisson distribution were used to calculate crude pr...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Angela Uyen-Cateriano Fabriccio J. Visconti-Lopez Cielo Cabanillas-Ramirez Milene Morocho-Pinedo Vicente A. Benites-Zapata Daniel Raa-Ortiz Percy Herrera-A ñazco Source Type: research

Trial by media: evaluating the role of mainstream media and fact-checking agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study uses qualitative methods and relies on secondary data available in academic domains. In this paper, a specific case related with the COVID-19 pandemic is taken up. Conflicting accounts of health professionals both in academic and industry are compared and analysed. Professional integrity of fact-checking agencies as well goes through scrutiny. After conducting a critical analysis, it is observed that media houses have violated certain ethics while presenting news and opinions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Without any consideration of fair presentation, the mainstream media resorted to presenting vaccine hes...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Haoginlen Chongloi Source Type: research

Challenges and opportunities in female commercial sex worker health care: a critical literature review
Meagan O'Brien, Orla Kistmacher, Sabrina Marie Stephen, Gerard Thomas Flaherty International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to describe the unique health challenges facing female commercial sex workers (FSWs), including issues related to their marginalisation and difficulty accessing health care. It proposes solutions to some of these problems. This paper addresses this sensitive subject through the methodology of a literature review, drawing on a variety of relevant published literature to inform a modern understanding ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Meagan O'Brien Orla Kistmacher Sabrina Marie Stephen Gerard Thomas Flaherty Source Type: research

Legal comparison of the use of telemedicine between Indonesia and the United States
This study aims to analyze the way Indonesian and the US laws regulate the reality and implications of legal issues regarding telemedicine, including the protection of citizens in using telemedicine. This normative legal study used secondary data comprising primary and secondary legal materials based on the law as a norm. The normative legal method was used because the data were based on laws and regulations, reports, journals and research governing telemedicine in Indonesia and the USA. The results showed similarities between Indonesia and the USA regarding health services as part of protecting human rights. The...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pujiyono Suwadi Priscilla Wresty Ayuningtyas Shintya Yulfa Septiningrum Reda Manthovani Source Type: research

Environmental hazards and health rights of workers in shipbreaking in Bangladesh
Md. Kamal Uddin, Mohammad Nur Nobi, ANM Moinul Islam International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The shipbreaking sector in Bangladesh has spurred extensive academic and policy debates on relations between shipbreaking industries, environmental degradation and the health security of their workers. As shipbreaking is an economically significant industry in Bangladesh, it needs to implement both domestic and global mechanisms for environmental conservation and the protection of the labourers’ health from environmental risks. The purpose of ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Md. Kamal Uddin Mohammad Nur Nobi ANM Moinul Islam Source Type: research

The technological intervention in e-health management: evidence from Thailand
This study highlighted an issue of contentious usage intentions of e-health services among Thai older citizens. This study aims to examine the relationship of social influence (SI), information quality (IQ) and the digital literacy (DL) to contentious usage intentions. This study follows quantitative techniques, and the sample size is 140 to analyze, that is collected from the older Thai citizens. The convenient sampling technique was used to collect the data and the items were measured by using a five-point Likert scale. The findings of this study are having mixed results. The effect of DL and satisfaction (SAT)...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mohsin Raza Rimsha Khalid Worakamol Wisetsri Luigi Pio Leonardo Cavaliere Hamza Subhi Mohammad Alnawafleh Magna Guzman-Avalos Source Type: research

Assessment of attitudes toward patient rights of people live from a Turkey town and migrating to Belgium
This study measures the attitudes of two groups of people living in different geographies, “individuals living in Emirdag and Individuals emigrated from Emirdag to Belgium,” and yet having the same ethnic origin, common social and cultural capital. Implementing quantitative research, the data for the current study was obtained from a total of 1,043 participants, who were administered the Likert type “Patient Rights Attitude Scale” along with demographic questionnaire. The total score mean of the scale is 126.09 ± 15.21 in the Emirdag group, whereas in the Belgian group, it is 129.78 ± 13.356. While the ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Vahide Korkmaz Nil üfer Demirsoy Source Type: research

Stigma, discrimination and HIV or AIDS: an empirical investigation of Asian immigrants and refugees in Canada
Akm Ahsan Ullah, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- HIV or AIDS remains invisible and dismissed by most South Asians living in Canada as HIV or AIDS issues are perceived as an offshoot of Western lifestyle linked with drug use and promiscuity. This paper aims to look into how people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) cope with prejudice and stigma. To guide this research, a constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted as the theoretical and methodological framework. The authors reached the participants...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Akm Ahsan Ullah Ahmed Shafiqul Huque Source Type: research

Psychosocial indicators of suicidal ideation among acid attack survivors
This study aims to probe the relationship of facial disfigurement, stigmatization, burdensome, hopelessness and suicidal ideation in acid attack survivors and to scrutinize the mediating role of perceived burdensome and hopelessness in connection between facial disfigurement, social stigmatization and suicidal ideation among acid attack survivors. Data was collected from Holy Family Hospital which is located in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Acid Survivors Foundation and social media sites. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the sample. Sample comprised of N = 74 acid attack survivors. English version of discrimi...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shakeela Asif Soulat Khan Tayyab Ali Butt Anisa Mehmood Aimen Zulfiqar Tahira Mubashar Source Type: research

The importance of community support for women in a Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe
This study helps fill an important gap in Indigenous scholarship by centering the resilience of women and Indigenous tribes and by using a framework that is consistent with Indigenous holistic views of health. The data for this paper was collected as part of a larger study exploring the reproductive health experiences of a state-recognized Gulf Coast tribe. A total of 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals who identify as women and as members of this tribe using qualitative descriptive methodology. This method is recommended for research with Indigenous communities. A community advisory board wi...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tess A. Carlson Jessica L. Liddell Source Type: research

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Others as Shamer scale: a barrier to effective health-care assessment
This study contributes to scientific knowledge and helps to develop and test indigenous cross-cultural instruments that can be used to examine external shame in Pakistani people. (Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare)
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - October 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mahvia Gull Muhammad Aqeel Aniqa Kanwal Kamran Khan Tanvir Akhtar Source Type: research

Relationship between strategic orientation and performance: the mediating role of green supply chain management for better performance
Samira Jalili, Mohammad Amerzadeh, Saeideh Moosavi, Abdollah Keshavarz, Rouhollah Zaboli, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Rohollah Kalhor International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Strategic orientation is one of the critical principles affecting the marketing and strategy selection of an organization’s activities, reflecting the strategic tendencies implemented by the organization to create behaviours, leading to organizational efficiency and better employee performance. Therefore, this paper aims to study the relationship between strategic ori...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Samira Jalili Mohammad Amerzadeh Saeideh Moosavi Abdollah Keshavarz Rouhollah Zaboli Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee Rohollah Kalhor Source Type: research

Monetary penalties for refusal of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination: state ’s right to regulate vs people’s rights and freedom in health care
This study analyzes in depth the following issues: of whether the government has the authority to apply mandatory vaccination laws enforced through monetary penalties for those who refused to be vaccinated and how does the government implement the appropriate legal policy to enforce mandatory vaccination without imposing penalties for non-compliance while maintaining a balance between the interests of protecting public health and the human rights of individuals to choose medical treatment for themselves, including whether they are willing to be vaccinated. Hence, the political affairs, economic matters and other non-legal ...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sefriani Sefriani Nur Gemilang Mahardhika Source Type: research

Aging is inevitable: understanding aging anxiety related to physical symptomology and quality of life with the mediating role of self-esteem in adults
This study aims to examine the relationship between aging anxiety, self-esteem, physical symptomology and quality of life in early and middle adults as well as to explore the mediating role of self-esteem. A cross-sectional study was designed, and a sample of N= 700 educated men and women aged between 35 and 65 years were taken through purposive sampling. Anxiety about Aging Scale, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, The World Health Organization Quality of Life – BREF and Somatic Symptom Scale-8 were used for assessment. Research suggests that an increase in aging anxiety leads to poor quality of life and lower sel...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rowaida Yawar Soulat Khan Maryam Rafiq Nimra Fawad Sundas Shams Saher Navid Muhammad Abdullah Khan Nabiha Taufiq Areesha Touqir Moazma Imran Tayyab Ali Butt Source Type: research

Patient personal data protection: comparing the health-care regulations in Indonesia, Singapore and the European Union
This study analyzes the regulation and protection of patients’ personal data in Indonesia, Singapore and the EU to construct a regulatory design for the protection of patients’ personal data. The results of this study are useful for constructing regulations governing the protection of patients’ personal data. The regulation is to protect the patient’s personal data like a patient’s human right. The ideal regulatory design can prevent data breaches. Based on the results of comparative studies, in Singapore and the EU, cases of personal data leakage are rare because they have a regulatory framework regard...
Source: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - September 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Dona Budi Kharisma Alvalerie Diakanza Source Type: research