given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the ministry of health and medical education in iran. iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. this charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. t...

results awareness of the majority of nurses about the rights of the patients with mental disorder and respect for their rights from their perspective were at a good level. using pearson correlation coefficient test, a statistically significant correlation was found between the level of awareness of and the respect for their rights from the perspective of nurses (p ≤ 0.002). conclusions this stu...

“human dignity” is mentioned in both the instruments of international human rights and the national constitutions of countries, and is often recognized either as a justification of “rights” or as one of the constitutional rights. this issue has a special place in the constitution of iran as well. consistent with the international and national human rights instruments, in different legal systems...

our commentary on forman et al paper explores their thesis that right to health language can frame global health policy responses. we examined human rights discourse in the outcome documents from three 2015 united nations (un) summits and found rights-related terms are used in all three. however, a deeper examination of the discourse finds the documents do not convey the obligations and entitle...

copyright is basics in development and therefore the authors have monopoly rights .but, the progress of science is depended to modification& distribution of works .now, copy left license is created and while a copyright generally enables a person to claim “all rights-reserved,” a copy left generally means “some – rights - reserved. there is the shift from copyright licenses to copy left license...

although intellectual property rights (iprs) in this era specially after the constitution of world trade organization (wto) have been concerned from economic and commercialization point of view, human rights perspective to iprs has been increased and so, human rights groups have highlighted certain challenges between iprs and human rights, have tried to adjust economic perspective and have soug...

Background: Recipients of healthcare services have rights, which must be acknowledged and protected. Such rights include observance of acceptable patient physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs guided by commonly accepted rules and regulations. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of awareness rates and observance of patient rights in Iran from ...

Background: Patient's rights as one of the basic pillars in defining the standards of clinical services indicate that the patient's biopsychosocial and spiritual needs are met in the form of standards, rules, and regulations. This study aimed to evaluate the level of awareness and observance of patients' rights by nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Larestan University of Medical Sciences...