Collective Rights to Health: Exploring the Experiences of Homeless Families, 2004-2005

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The aims of this research project were to develop a conceptual framework on collective rights to health, and to explore the extent to which homeless families access their rights to health care services. The specific objectives of the research were:<ul><li>to explore a conceptual framework of collective rights for accessing health care</li><li>to identify aspects of partnerships that might foster the adoption of a collective rights framework where there is a shared responsibility for health across the health and social care sectors and across agencies</li><li>to do this by engaging in a process of dialogue between researchers, homeless families and partner agencies</li></ul>The modern human rights movement is relatively recent, following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. With international acceptance of socio-economic rights as being of equal importance to civil and political rights, there has been a growing prominence in the last 10 years of rights-based approaches to health. However, such approaches remain under-researched and frequently contested, with debate not only over the value of these approaches, but also the definitions of terms used and the structures and processes of these approaches. For the purposes of this research project, substantive rights to health were accepted. It was beyond the scope of the project to explore all the complexities of rights-based approaches to health. However, the research allowed the opportunity to begin this exploration in relation to health rights for homeless people, and set out a conceptual framework that could be used in further, more in-depth research. The framework is one of 'sites for health rights' and brings together recent work from geography, health and human rights to provide a basis for investigating theory, policy and practice of health rights.<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>This dataset comprises 41 qualitative interviews with homeless families living in one statutory hostel and one non-statutory hostel in the East Midlands, and service providers working with these families. The interviews covered topics around homelessness, the right to health, access to health care and health care responsibility.

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本研究项目旨在构建健康集体权利的概念框架，并探究无家可归家庭获取医疗服务相关权利的实现程度。本研究的具体目标包括：
- 探索医疗服务获取场景下的集体权利概念框架
- 识别可推动集体权利框架落地的合作要素——该框架要求医疗与社会照护领域及跨机构间共同承担健康保障责任
- 通过研究者、无家可归家庭与合作机构之间的对话流程完成上述研究

现代人权运动诞生于1948年《世界人权宣言》（Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR），整体而言仍属较新的发展领域。随着国际社会逐步认可社会经济权利与公民权利、政治权利具有同等重要性，近十年来以权利为基础的医疗照护研究路径愈发受到关注。但此类路径的相关研究仍较为匮乏，且常引发诸多争议：学界不仅对这类路径的应用价值存在分歧，同时也对相关术语的定义、该类路径的结构与运作流程存有争议。本研究项目认可健康的实体性权利，鉴于研究范围所限，未深入探讨以权利为基础的医疗路径的全部复杂面向。不过本研究为探索无家可归群体的健康权利议题提供了契机，并构建了可用于后续更深入研究的概念框架。该框架被称为"健康权利场域（sites for health rights）"，整合了地理学、健康学与人权领域的最新研究成果，为健康权利的理论、政策与实践研究提供了基础。

<b>核心主题</b>：
本数据集包含针对东米德兰兹地区两家收容机构（一家为法定收容机构（statutory hostel），一家为非法定收容机构（non-statutory hostel））内的无家可归家庭，以及为这些家庭提供服务的机构从业者开展的41份质性访谈（qualitative interviews）。访谈内容涵盖无家可归现象、健康权利、医疗服务获取途径及医疗服务责任等议题。