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How do we protect the right to health?

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Key learning points

  1. The right to health is protected by Article 24 of the UNCRC, ensuring access to healthcare and health information.
  2. The UNCRC emphasises the responsibility of high income countries to help low income nations access health services.
  3. It promotes healthcare access, reduces inequality, improves public health, boosts economies and upholds human dignity.
  4. The NHS, founded in 1948, transformed the UK’s healthcare system after World War Two.
  5. The NHS offers free healthcare, health information and support for mental and physical wellbeing.

Keywords

  • Right - something guaranteed by law

  • Health - a state of overall wellbeing that includes physical, mental and social aspects, not just the absence of disease or injury

  • Healthcare - the services provided to you to maintain and improve your health

Common misconception

You need to pay to see a doctor in the UK.

The NHS is free in the UK; therefore you can see a doctor for no charge - this protects our right to healthcare. Some people choose to have private healthcare in the UK, but this is a personal choice.

You may wish to do some research into local healthcare providers to make sure pupils know the health provision in their area; this would improve their knowledge on their personal right to health.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Who is protected by the UNCRC?
Correct Answer: children, kids
Q2.
If this is the definition, 'representing or supporting a person or an organisation publicly by writing, speaking or taking action on behalf of that person or organisation', what is the word?
responsibility
Correct answer: advocacy
democracy
monarchy
Q3.
For children to be able to influence decisions, adults need to ___________ to them.
Correct answer: listen
dictate
command
lecture
Q4.
Which is not an example of active citizenship?
campaigning
petitioning
Correct answer: reading
protesting
Q5.
MPs and local councillors who can adapt policies can be called...
adaptmakers
adaptionmakers
Correct answer: changemakers
changingmakers
Q6.
Match the advocacy campaign with its example.
Correct Answer:fundraising,raising money for charity by putting on an event
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raising money for charity by putting on an event

Correct Answer:petitioning,signing an online agreement asking the Government for change
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signing an online agreement asking the Government for change

Correct Answer:protesting,peacefully objecting to a policy, law or situation
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peacefully objecting to a policy, law or situation

Correct Answer:campaigning,organising an event with a group of people to achieve an aim
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organising an event with a group of people to achieve an aim

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6 Questions

Q1.
What does the right to health give everyone access to?
Correct answer: healthcare
free healthcare
insurance information
Correct answer: health information
Q2.
According to the UNCRC, who should help low income countries to access the right to health?
everyone
Correct answer: high income countries
themselves
other low income countries
Q3.
The right to health reduces __________ because it gives everyone fair access to healthcare.
Correct Answer: inequality, unfairness
Q4.
If more people are healthy, they are able to get more work done. This means health boosts what?
unemployment
Correct answer: the economy
the crime rate
the weather
Q5.
How much does it cost to go and see a doctor in the UK?
Correct Answer: Nothing, Free, 0, It doesn't cost money, £0
Q6.
Match the word with its definition.
Correct Answer:healthcare,the services provided to you to maintain and improve your health
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the services provided to you to maintain and improve your health

Correct Answer:international aid,money given by high income countries to low ones to improve health
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money given by high income countries to low ones to improve health

Correct Answer:NHS,funded by people's taxes, it supports people in staying healthy
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funded by people's taxes, it supports people in staying healthy