“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 r...

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Main Authors: Meena Putturaj, Sara Van Belle, Anja Krumeich, Prashanth NS, Nora Engel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01850-5