Glossary
- Citizens’ rights
- Citizens’ rights derive from legislation and regulation support by the state in any given jurisdiction. They may also refer to supposed or proposed rights that could be enacted and supported by a state. Such rights tend to be generic in nature, for example, related to human rights, that is rights to be free from discrimination, persecution, or freedom of movement, speech, or similar.
- Consumers’ rights
- Consumers’ rights can be seen as a subset of citizens’ rights, in that they are, or proposed to be, rights supported by a state in the particular field of consumer legislation and regulation, and concern the goods and services that are exchanged in any marketplace.
- Seneca
- Seneca the Younger (4 BCE–65 CE), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca; philosopher, playwright and adviser to the Roman Emperor Nero (between 54 and 62 CE) compelled to commit suicide by Nero in 65 CE.
- Stakeholders
- A person, group or organisation with an interest in a project, so citizens, service users, as well as health and social care practitioners (and their managers) are all ‘stakeholders’ in health and social care.