Human Rights as ethical foundation for health professions - a sketch of the disciplines and their spheres of activities

ABSTRACT

Based on the definitional foundations of the disciplines human rights and ethics, the article links the normative and legal significance of human rights, as exemplified by the right to health, with state and individual action in healthcare. Applying human rights as an ethical foundation in healthcare also means repeatedly weighing up rights and obligations for the individual and the collective, as exemplified by current controversies surrounding the corona pandemic.