Health Pastoral
Quality of life and rights of people with disease
Abstract
The pastoral duties related to health are one of the lines of action and investigation of Practical Theology. The promotion of the quality of life and of the rights of sick persons (persons who are suffering) are relevant points of these present times in which we are confronting as humanity the pandemia caused by the Covid-!9 illness, which deals with a viral ailment which could bring on at its most critical point a premature death in an intensive care hospital unit, as has happened in many countries of the world. The pastoral health duties carry forth God’s tenderness with persons who are suffering and they have in mind the promotion of quality of life in the midst of this pandemia, without failing to care for the rest of chronic painful illnesses and/or terminal conditions that require palliative care. This article reviews the concept of quality of life in order to condense it into the human rights of a person with chronic illness, painful and/or terminal, which can also be applied to every person suffering with an illness.
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