The International Right to Health Framework and Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: A Case Study (Protocol)

Oluseyi Olayanju

Lecturer, Department of Public and Private Law, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria.

Abstract

Purpose: This protocol is the blueprint of the empirical component of a completed doctoral research that assesses the potential of the international human right to health framework to contribute to the reduction of preventable maternal mortality in Nigeria.
Methods and Analysis: The state selected for the study is Lagos State. This empirical study employs semi-structured interviews of the policymakers, such as senior medical officers in the Obstetrics/Gynaecology department of Lagos State Mother and Child Centres, officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Health and state agencies seized with the implementation of different aspects of the framework, to explore the prospects and challenges of the framework from the perspective of national implementers.
Conclusion: Their responses will form a substantial part of the recommendations of the thesis on applying the right to health to preventing maternal mortality globally, and in Nigeria, particularly.
Ethics: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Durham, the Ethics Committee of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research and the Lagos State Ministry of Health.

Keywords: Maternal mortality, Lagos state, Empirical research, Right to health standards

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