Published: 2024-07-05

Patients’ rights in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic: the Polish situation

Dominika Tykwińska-Rutkowska
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.2.07

Abstract

Patients’ rights are grounded on the fundamental human rights to dignity, life, health, integrity and self-determination, and hence patients’ rights constitute a part of human rights; they are a materialisation of a collective sense of threat to human rights. Patients’ rights express the empowerment of patients and are an important mechanism providing patients with a sense of security in their relations with health professionals. They also play a salient universal access to health services. In the context of contemporary threats to health such as COVID-19, the question arises whether administrative authorities are doing anything to enable patients to exercise their rights, and what measures they are taking to ensure this and mitigate the bad effects of such threats on patients’ rights.

Keywords:

patients’ rights, restrictions on patients’ rights, COVID-19, operation of public administrative authorities

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Tykwińska-Rutkowska, D. (2024). Patients’ rights in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic: the Polish situation. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 24(2), 117–131. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.2.07

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