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Thesis (doctoral)--Ruprecht-Karl-Universitāt Heidelberg.

The South African health sector encounters significant challenges of inequality in terms of access to health care services. A ‘quadruplet burden of disease’ does not make access to health any easier. Patient’s access to health care can be hindered by the patient’s residential area. Rural patients are faced with hospitals that do not have specialist care while urban areas are swamped with patient who need specialist care. Medical general practitioners’ scope of practice is limited and that creates challenges when patients need specialised care in a resource constrained environment. The time it takes for the patient in public health sector to access health services may be affected by their locality. The same challenges may be experienced by patient in private sector with medical Aids who are residing in the rural areas. The state’s impression is that demand is more than supply. On the other hand the court pursues justice for people who do not receive timeous access to healthcare. The study will be researching on locality issues that can jeopardise the standard of care. Although The Health Professions Council of South Africa is silent about the Locality Rule but it has unanimously adopted prerequisites and contraindications for using the Locality Rule as a defence. The Council has a duty in terms of Health Professional Act 56 of 1974 to uphold patient safety. The work seeks to understand the origin of the locality rule, its application in terms of the Constitution of the Republic Of South Africa, case law and relevant legislature. The work will also take into consideration the historical background of the South African health system and its responsibility in advancing socioeconomic rights for the citizens of South Africa. The prerequisite for using resource constrains and special circumstances will be discussed. / Dissertation (MPhil)--University Of Pretoria, 2020. / Public Law / MPhil / Unrestricted

The Bill of Rights enshrines the rights of all people in our country and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom. The state must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights. Every human being on earth has the right to life. In general, the state's positive and negative duties are set out in section 7(2) of the Constitution of South Africa, which requires the state to respect, protect, promote and fulfil all human rights. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa adopted and in 1996 is the supreme law of the land and supersedes all other laws in the country. The main key to having a more eloquent and fulfilling governing system is to align it with the Constitution. This is empirical to developing and implementing health law and policy, which regulates in at least five important ways: • It regulates the structure of government. • It regulates the way in which various branches of government operate. • It sets out the framework for raising taxes and allocating revenue. • It guides the content of all laws and policies, primarily through the Bill of Rights. • It regulates the role of government and non-state actors such as private corporations in realising the right of access to health care services. Furthermore, it emphasizes that every person has the right “to have access to health care services, including reproductive health care”. / Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Public Law / MPhil / Restricted

This thesis deals with the concept of the medical duty to inform focusing on the rights of the patient. It emerges that the notions governing medical responsibility do not adequately address the question of the protection and application of the rights of the patient. Existing conceptions of the notions of dereliction, causality and damage are analysed in order to point out the many inadequacies with the rights of the patient, source of the obligation to inform. Particular emphasis is given to the situation in Quebec and to the eventual place that could be occupied by conception of the duty to inform that is more sensitive to the situation and rights of the patient.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / STATEMENT OF PROBLEM This study is an appraisal of the knowledge held by graduate students in nursing concerning the legal aspects of nursing. Statement of Hypothesis Graduate students in nursing have limited knowledge of the legal aspects of nursing. METHODOLOGY The sample chosen for study consisted of forty graduate students in nursing who were enrolled in a teacher education program. The study was done in the Spring of 1963 in a school of nursing which was an integral part of a large university in a metropolitan area of New England. A tool consisting of fifty true-false statements was designed to collect the data. These statements were concerned with law as it relates to the nursing profession. To establish the validity of the tool, it was submitted to a qualified attorney at a Law-Medical Research Institute for his consideration. He found the items to be valid in accordance with established criteria. The investigator administered the tool to the graduate students in a classroom setting. Each item on the tool had a value of two and a perfect score on the total tool of one hundred. FINDINGS A statistical analysis of the data showed the following: 1. The mean score was seventy-one; the median and the mode were seventy-two. 2. The standard deviation was 6.07 and the range of scores was from fifty-two to eighty-four. 3. A chi-square test for goodness of fit showed that the data could have arisen from a normally distributed population. A chi-square of 4.43 was obtained which was not significant at the five per cent level. 4. The application of the F test to the data showed that there was no significant difference among the means on the subtests. 5. Product-moment coefficients of correlation were found to be significant at the one per cent level between over-all knowledge of the test and knowledge of the items in the following categories: (1) relation of a nurse's rights and liabilities to her position and status, (2) negligence and malpractice, (3) torts and crimes, and (4) contracts for nursing. The correlation ratio between the questions concerned with the legal status of the nurse and over-all knowledge was found to be significant at the five per cent level. The correlation ratios between over-all knowledge and the items relating to the practice of nursing and witnesses and wills were insignificant. 6. Three of the test items were answered correctly by less than one-third of the selected sample. These items were concerned with (1) the use of textbooks as evidence in malpractice cases, (2) the status of nursing students in hospital schools of nursing, and (3) slander and libel. CONCLUSIONS From the data obtained in this study, the investigator concluded that graduate students in nursing have limited knowledge of the legal aspects of nursing and therefore, the hypothesis of the study was substantiated. The majority of the selected sample answered three of the questions incorrectly. These items were concerned with slander and libel, the use of textbooks as evidence in malpractice cases, and the status of the nursing students in hospital schools of nursing.[TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available in print.

Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes abstract in English.