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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:to explore a conceptual framework of collective rights for accessing health careto 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 agenciesto do this by engaging in a process of dialogue between researchers, homeless families and partner agenciesThe 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.
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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.
Volunteer sample
Convenience sample
Face-to-face interview
