Human rights education in patient care

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This article explores how human rights education in the health professions can build knowledge, change culture, and empower advocacy. Through a study of educational initiatives in the field, the article analyzes different methods by which health professionals come to see the relevance of human rights norms for their work, to habituate these norms in everyday practice, and to espouse these norms in advocacy for social justice. The article seeks to show the transformative potential of education for human rights in patient care.

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Joanna N. Erdman: joanna.erdman@dal.ca

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Public Health Rev

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Public Health Rev

Title: Public Health Reviews

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Print): 0301-0422

ISSN (Electronic): 2107-6952

Publication date (Electronic): 11 July 2017

Publication date PMC-release: 11 July 2017

Publication date Collection: 2017

Volume: 38

Electronic Location Identifier: 14

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ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8200, GRID grid.55602.34, MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law, , Dalhousie University, ; Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K6S2 Canada

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Publisher ID: 61

DOI: 10.1186/s40985-017-0061-8

PMC ID: 5809882

SO-VID: 4f351d35-e0e7-4623-93e4-141490759763

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Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

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Date received : 2 December 2016

Date accepted : 30 June 2017

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Keywords: human rights,education,health professions,patient care,advocacy,systemic reform

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