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Access to Pain Management-Still Very Much a Human Right.
The present AAPM President’s Message reinforces and extends the three published to date during the current President’s term—all under the broad theme of pain as a public health issue. A key tenet of contemporary public health is its concern for social justice and human rights. In recent decades, the concept of pain management as a fundamental human right has emerged as a source of advocacy and ...
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Ethical and legal considerations in pain management typically relate to 2 issues. The first refers to pain management as a human right. The second involves the nature of the patient-physician relationship as it relates to pain management. Although pain physicians often like to think of pain management as a human right, it remains difficult to support this position as a point of law or as a matt...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2018.304743