[EQ] Self evaluation model and tool on the respect of Children's Rights in Hospital

Self-evaluation model and tool on the respect of Children's Rights in Hospital

 

Task force on Health Promotion  for Children and Adolescents constituted within the 'International Network on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services' with the contribution of WHO, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, England's Healthcare Commission and the Greek Ombudsman. 2009

 

PDF Available online at:

http://who.collaboratingcentre.meyer.it/meyer_pro/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=117&Itemid=46

 

Website: http://who.collaboratingcentre.meyer.it

 

“……This model is inspired in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), in particular its general principles on  non-discrimination (art. 2), on best interests of the child (art. 3 (1), on life, survival and development (art. 6) and on the respect for the views of the child (art. 12).

 

The tool identifies 12 rights - divided in three areas:
- Right to the highest attainable standard of health care,
- Right to information and participation in all decisions involving their health care,
- Right to protection from all forms of violence)
  -  and suggest questions and  criteria to implement the self-evaluation model and tool on the respect of children's rights in hospital.

 

Theoretically, the model follows the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The specific objective of the model is to assess the gap between the full respect of children’s rights in hospital and the actual practice, as a basis to promote improvement and change in that setting through the development of standards, taking of actions and further assessment and feedback, monitoring gaps and produce change.

By making the model and tool available online, our purpose is to disseminate it to Paediatric Hospitals and Departments throughout Europe and beyond and to provide them with a practical model and tool for the self-assessment and improvement of the respect of children’s rights in hospitals.

 

 

 

 

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Mr. Fabrizio Simonelli, Head, Health Promotion Programme

WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Capacity Building in Child and Adolescent Health

A.Meyer University Children's Hospital

Viale Pieraccini, 28

50139 Firenze (IT) http://who.collaboratingcentre.meyer.it -- http://www.retehphtoscana.it

 

 

 

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