February 2022 newsletter from Evidence Aid (2) Digital Electronic Health Records for refugees

28 March, 2022

United Nations Strategy for Legal Identity for All Concept note developed by the United Nations Legal Identity Expert Group 1 Draft by S. Mrkić, June 2019. Reviewed and finalized by the UN LIEG Technical Secretariat and approved by UN LIEG co-chairs

https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/documents/UN-Strategy-for-L...

As a lifelong devotee of virtual digital Electronic Health Records I recommend consideration of the adoption of digital EHRs for all refugee (and non refugee citizens) at birth or later in life so that citizens of all ages, creeds, genders, |States can receive the benefits of information, knowledge and available Universal Care care pathways. Without an identity and without registration on an EHR registry these care pathways are both not available and if a full past EHR is not available much less efficacious.

'Introduction 1. Everyone has the right to be recognized as a person before the law, as enshrined in Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and several international human rights instruments.2 2. To address this, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agreed by all member states in September 2015, established a specific target within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Target 16.9 - legal identity for all. 3. As civil registration provides an official record of the existence of the person and the recognition of that individual before the law, it has been the fundamental means of granting legal identity.3 Furthermore, civil registration is recognized as the ultimate source for production of comprehensive, regular and reliable vital statistics.4 4. Concerned by the fact that the coverage of civil registration is not universal and complete in all countries of the world, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development established indicator 17.19.2 - proportion of countries that have achieved 100 per cent birth reggistration and 80 per cent death registration.'

HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data

Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com