Education on human rights and healthcare: evidence from Serbia

Ensuring and enforcing human rights in patient care are important to promote health and to provide quality and appropriate healthcare services. Therefore, continued medical education (CME) is essential for healthcare professionals to utilize their sphere of influence to affect change in healthcare p...

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Published in:Health promotion international 2015-03, Vol.30 (1), p.101-105
Main Authors: VRANES, ALEKSANDRA JOVIC, MIKANOVIC, VESNA BJEGOVIC, VUKOVIC, DEJANA, DJIKANOVIC, BOSILJKA, BABIC, MOMCILO
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel
Delivery of Health Care
Education, Medical, Continuing - methods
Female
Health Personnel - education
Health Personnel - psychology
Health Services Accessibility
Human Rights - education
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
ORIGINAL PAPERS
Patient Rights
Program Evaluation
Schools, Medical
Serbia
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult
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Summary:Ensuring and enforcing human rights in patient care are important to promote health and to provide quality and appropriate healthcare services. Therefore, continued medical education (CME) is essential for healthcare professionals to utilize their sphere of influence to affect change in healthcare practice. A total of 123 participants attended three CME courses. Course topics covered: (i) the areas of human rights and healthcare, (ii) rights, obligations and responsibilities of healthcare professionals in relation to human rights and the rights of patients, (iii) healthcare of vulnerable groups and (iv) access to essential medical services. Evaluation of the CME courses involved two components: evaluation of participants’ performance and the participants’evaluation of the teaching process. The participants were assessed at the beginning and end of each course. Each of the courses was evaluated by the participants through a questionnaire distributed at the end of each course. Descriptive statistics was used for data interpretation. Knowledge of the healthcare professionals improved at the end of all the three courses. The participants assessed several aspects of the courses, including the course topics, educational methods, the course methods, organization, duration and dynamics as well as the physical environment and the technical facilities of the course, and rated each very highly. Our results corroborate the importance and necessity of courses to heighten awareness of the state of current healthcare and human rights issues to increase the involvement of healthcare professionals both locally and globally.
ISSN:0957-4824
1460-2245
DOI:10.1093/heapro/dau093