Neither does it guarantee a right to health protection as such.

The right to health protection and safety at work.

Article 43: The right to health protection is recognized.

Every person has the right to health protection, including free use of a broad network of state health care institutions.

Citizens’ right to health protection 15.

Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection.

The draft resolution mentions non-smokers’ right to health protection, which is the right of all citizens, both smokers and non-smokers.

This report is an important first step in making our citizens’ right to health protection, enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a reality.

In 1976, Cuba's healthcare program was enshrined in Article 50 of the revised constitution which states, "Everyone has the right to health protection and care".

Article 42 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution gave all citizens the right to health protection and free access to any health institutions in the USSR.

"The right to health protection is a fundamental right ... especially for pregnant women," Mexico's human rights ombudsman, Raul Plascencia, said.

The said Law, on the basis of mutuality and solidarity, ensures the right to health protection for persons who suffer from severe, moderate or extreme mental or physical illness.

Health Member States mobilise for better health © Gamma The fundamental right to health protection is safeguarded by the Council of Europe’s Social Charter.

In Spain, for example, Article 43 of the 1978 Constitution recognizes the right to health protection and requires public authorities to organize and oversee public health activities, including preventive measures.

The Law on Health Protection guarantees the right to health protection to all children until they reach 18 years of age, or 26 years of age if they are full-time students.

Destitution, poverty and social exclusion are violations of dignity and the European Union prides itself on doing everything in its power to establish this right to health protection wherever disease is due to poverty.

And the Cohesion and Quality in the National Health System Act, which was recently passed, requires the coordination of public health care bodies in order to guarantee citizens their right to health protection.

Children can benefit from the right to health protection beyond 26 years of age if they have discontinued their education as a result of illness, or were left incapacitated and cannot have an independent life or perform any work.

II.2.B. Systemic Barriers for the Effective Exercise of the Right to Health Protection II.2.13. High levels of social exclusion have resulted into a steadily deteriorating health status of Roma.

Therefore, the 2003 law establishes coordination and cooperation of public health authorities as a means to ensure citizens the right to health protection, with the common goal of ensuring equity, quality and social participation National Health System.

The result is one to be proud of, for it strikes the right balance between, on the one hand, the consumer’s interest and right to health protection and information and, on the other, the requirement not to place an excessive burden on industry.

Among the more general rights established are the right to health protection, the right to social security, the right to social and medical assistance and to social welfare services. Apart from workers, a number of specific groups are singled out for protection.

In the petition lodged on behalf of the French-speaking citizens, the latter complain, inter alia, of serious infringement of the right to health protection and cite as an example free breast cancer screening, from which French-speaking women are excluded without any means of redress.

According to the Committee of Experts’ report, the new Article 32 was intended to offer significant added value compared with Article 11 (right to health protection), by going beyond the notion of public health to incorporate into the Charter several aspects of the individual right to health care.