2016 – Current - “Approaches to Human Rights in Health”

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Type: Refresher course

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Workload: 30 h.

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Coordination: Miriam Ventura

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Target Audience: Graduate students and graduates in any area of knowledge, professionals with a medium or higher level who work in the Health, Education, Security, Social and Justice System sectors, in non-governmental organizations, community groups, union organizations.

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Partner institution: Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (DPE-RJ).

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Description: CONCEPTIONS, THEORIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS GUARANTEE SYSTEM. HUMAN RIGHTS, VULNERABILITY AND HEALTH. HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHT TO HEALTH. Human rights (HD) have been legitimized as a universal ethical parameter of action and an important theoretical and methodological framework for understanding human, social and political issues. HR are a privileged connector in the circulation of different knowledge (ethical, bioethical, legal and health) that can contribute to academic research and the development of health systems and practices, in line with the SUS. Knowing and reflecting on these references and their articulations is fundamental in academic training and in health work, and in the most diverse social areas, education, public security, and organs of the justice system, in an intersectoral and comprehensive perspective of health. Equally important is the use of this framework for social action by different actors (NGO / OSCIP, Unions, Community groups). In this sense, the course aims to offer subsidies for reflection and understanding of the construction and formulation process, of the structure, of the contents and of the human rights (HR) guarantee system applied to health, and for the performance of managers, professionals and citizens in general. To this end, we seek to integrate different knowledge (ethical / bioethical, legal and sanitary) and emphasize contexts of vulnerability to health problems and human rights violations, as well as legal guarantees and the use of DH instruments in the implementation and state accountability the right to health (advocacy).