Promoting Human Rights to health in Georgia.
The research project has been carried out by Georgian coalition human rights in health care was the first attempt to evaluate Georgian government implemented health projects from the Human Rights standpoint, for strengthen capacity of key policy- and decision-makers of the country for informed decision making and contributing in promotion and protection of human rights in health. Considerable legal framework has been developed for protection of human rights in healthcare recently, which is well harmonized with modern, widely accepted international standards and included national legislation as well as various international legal instruments ratified by the country. However, the reality shows that all these efforts, unfortunately, were not effective in leading to widespread knowledge and understanding of the value of human rights in the patient groups and health care professions or at organizational levels.
More specifically the study evaluates the State funded Health Program for vulnerable groups (people living under the poverty line, old people, people with disabilities, people abuse substances, HIV infected, the patients who are being at last stage, prison population) from the Human Rights perspective. The research aims to determine to what extent the fundamental human rights and freedoms have been considered during the design and implementation of the health state program for those groups. The evaluation methodology comprises a mix of site visits and observation, face-to-face in-depth interviews, desk research and review of existing reports, legislation and secondary data. The data are analysed in a way that helps identify a range of problems and necessary steps to facilitate targeted groups full enjoyment of their right to health.
Based on the evaluation results the specific recommendations are elaborated for the key policy- and decision-makers for strengthening their capacity for informed decision-making and contributing to the promotion and protection of human rights in health.
