Do the beliefs and values of healthcare professionals have an impact on their obligation to provide good healthcare?
Format
LLD Project
Funding
Swedish Research Council (Linneaus Research Programme IMPACT)
Aims
The project investigates if healthcare professionals succeed in maintaining a balance between the requirement to provide good care and their religious convictions. The Swedish Health and Medical Services Act (1982:763) stipulates that health and medical services shall be conducted so as to meet the requirements for good care. One of the difficulties healthcare professionals must deal with, is to maintain a balance between the requirements to provide good care and their cultural values and beliefs. Healthcare professionals' ethical, moral and religious attitudes and beliefs have been shown to affect how they perform their work. Studies have shown that religious physicians tend to object to certain healthcare interventions that are contrary to their moral values.
The requirements for good care will also be investigated in a broader international context. Human rights instruments such as the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, ICESCR, the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR and the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine offer comprehensive articles on the right to health and play an important role in protecting the human rights and human dignity of patients. The principle of non-discrimination, the health care professional's freedom of religion and belief and the right to conscientious objections in lawful medical care, will also be analyzed within the scope of this project.
This project is part of the Linneaus Research Programme IMPACT (The Impact of Religion - Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy) theme 4.3 Right to Health.
Contact and more information
- Kavot Zillén, LLM, LLD Student
Supervisors
- Elisabeth Rynning, Professor of Medical Law, Department of Law
- Lotta Lerwall, Senior lecturer, Department of Law
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