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Adequacy of legal and policy measures taken to realise older persons’ right to healthcare in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Mbuya, Alphonce P.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-16T07:41:39Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-16T07:41:39Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Mbuya, Alphonce (2022), Adequacy of legal and policy measures taken to realise older persons’ right to healthcare in Tanzania. Moshi Co-operative University. 97-112 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1145
dc.description.abstract Global and regional human rights treaties require state parties, including Tanzania, to take constitutional, legislative, policy and other measures to give effect to the rights guaranteed in the treaties. This article seeks to answer the question of whether Tanzania has taken adequate constitutional, legislative, and policy measures toward realising older persons’ right to healthcare. Tanzania’s international human rights obligations to realise older persons’ right to healthcare stem from international and regional human rights treaties which include the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It is observed that, although Tanzania has recognised the need to ensure access to healthcare services by older persons, implementation of such policies remains a challenge as older persons continue to experience many challenges in accessing healthcare services. Moreover, the lack of constitutional protection of older persons’ rights and the right to healthcare and the absence of specific legislation on older persons render the legal framework on older persons’ right to healthcare extremely inadequate. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Moshi Co-operative University en_US
dc.subject Legal en_US
dc.subject Policy en_US
dc.subject Measures en_US
dc.subject Older en_US
dc.subject Persons en_US
dc.subject Right en_US
dc.subject Healthcare en_US
dc.title Adequacy of legal and policy measures taken to realise older persons’ right to healthcare in Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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