Health/Wellbeing as a Human Right: Addressing Violations

Running head: NURSING
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NURSING 2
Health/wellbeing as a human right (violations)
The population of every country in the world is increasing day and night. However, the
issue that worries me as a student studying nursing and would be a nurse in future is the issue of
violation of the right of health and well-being. The Catholic Social Teachings elaborates how
human beings should interact. It uses the two vital principles that is the principle of human
dignity and the principle of the common good to teach people on how to live with others in the
society as children of God. In this opinion editorial, it is going to make us of common good and
human dignity to elaborate on how people should address the challenge of violation of right of
health to human beings.
The meaning of human dignity from the Catholic Social teachings is that human beings
possess the sense of dignity if they carry out themselves with integrity and respect to one another
according Brady, (2017). In the context of denial of the right to well-being, the department of
health and the entire government are missing the point of human dignity. One of the ways of
addressing the issue of violation of the right health is to create awareness to the authority on the
importance of health to human being. The life of human being is from God in reference to
Etzioni, (2014). The authority should know that life of every individual is from God. When they
bare aware of the situation they can mobilize other members to pass a rule to fight for universal
health care to everyone. Apart from that, there are solutions such as giving out health insurance
to everybody in the community to assist them get healthcare in any hospital no matter where they
are in the nation. It is also important to increase the number of nurses and some can even offer
mobile services to the members of the society. To restore the spirit of human dignity, there are
several things that as a nurse I see them helpful in this context. One of the solutions is to bring
universal healthcare according to Nishino, (2017). Everyone can have an insurance card that at