Applying A human rights-based approach to healthcare

Human rights are discussed in many areas but not as often is it discussed in light of medical care and services. When a government announces “rights-based approach to health care for intersex children and young people”, then question becomes what does such a statement mean? Anecdotally, medical professionals often dismiss human rights as though they are not relevant to them in the general work in the general day-to-day medical practice. However, that is not necessarily the case as noted in the case study of ill-treatment of intersex people in the medical setting. This is a statement intersex advocates often hear. To understand what the human right to health is, the Article expounds first the foundation of human rights and then goes on to explain the right to health. The Article then sets out the application of human rights in the health care setting and the obligations of the state and the health sector and industry in general with the key elements of respect, protect and fulfil. Without the right to health, intersex people will fail to develop in dignity, and thus, a violation of human rights by both the health profession and the state who holds ultimate\nresponsibility