Based on interviews conducted with doctors, nurses and other frontline staff across West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, the paper exposes how the stresses and strains of protracted COVID-19 response have compounded existing challenges of working in a health system already rendered fragile, fragmented and resource-deprived by perpetual occupation and blockade, to cause a deepening wellbeing crisis among the Palestinian healthcare workforce.
Beyond the mere provision of healthcare, the right to health is entrenched in human rights and encompasses underlying determinants of health (including gender equality, right to food, right to housing for example), freedoms and rights, and entitlements such as equal opportunity to access the highest attainable standards of health.
الحقّ في الصحّة هو حقٌّ مُكرَّس من حقوق الإنسان، ولا يقتصر على الرعاية الصحّية. يتضمّن مجموعة من المُحدِّدات الأساسية للصحّة (بما في ذلك المساواة الجندرية، والحق في الغذاء، والحق في السكن على سبيل المثال)، والحريات والحقوق والاستحقاقات مثل تكافؤ الفرص للوصول إلى أعلى...