Human Rights Approach of Right to Healthiness and Human Dignity

Dignity is described in a historical perspective, and different meanings of dignity are clarified. Since health and dignity relate to one other, we have clarified the concept of health employing the texts of the Finnish theoretician Katie Eriksson. In order to illuminate the perspective of health promotion, Health and dignity relate to each other In traditional health and medical care the focus has been related more to illness than to health. In a health-promoting perspective, the focus is moving toward person’s health resources