"It's like asking for a necktie when you don't have underwear": Discourses on patient rights in southern Karnataka, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring patient rights is an extension of applying human rights principles to health care. A critical examination of how the notion of patient rights is perceived and enacted by various actors through critical discourse analysis (CDA) can help understand the impediments to its realization in practice.

Methods

We studied the discourses and discursive practices on patient rights in subnational policies and in ten health facilities in southern Karnataka, India. We conducted interviews (78), focus group discussions (3) with care-seeking individuals, care-providers, health care administrators and public health officials. We also conducted participant observation in selected health facilities and examined subnational policy documents of Karnataka pertaining to patient

SUBMITTER: Putturaj M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015129 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature