ealth is a right guaranteed by the State, the realization of which is linked to the exercise of other rights, including the right to water, food, education, physical culture, work, social security, healthy environments, and others that support good living. The State shall guarantee this right through economic, social, cultural, educational, and environmental policies, and through permanent, timely, and non-discriminatory access to programs, actions, and services for health promotion and comprehensive care, including sexual and reproductive health. The provision of health services shall be governed by the principles of equity, universality, solidarity, interculturality, quality, efficiency, effectiveness, precaution, and bioethics, with a gender and generational approach. Reconoce la salud como un derecho garantizado por el Estado, vinculado al ejercicio de otros derechos, y establece el acceso universal, oportuno y sin discriminación a servicios de salud, bajo principios de equidad, calidad e interculturalidad.

Older persons, children and adolescents, pregnant women, persons with disabilities, persons deprived of liberty, and those suffering from catastrophic or highly complex illnesses shall receive priority and specialized attention in both public and private sectors. The same priority attention shall be given to persons in situations of risk, victims of domestic and sexual violence, child abuse, natural or human-made disasters. The State shall provide special protection to persons in conditions of double vulnerability. Establece el derecho a atención prioritaria y especializada para grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad, incluyendo personas con enfermedades graves, niñas, niños y adolescentes, y personas en riesgo, garantizando una protección reforzada por parte del Estado.

The State shall guarantee policies for the prevention of disabilities and, together with society and the family, shall promote equal opportunities for persons with disabilities and their social integration. Persons with disabilities are recognized as having the following rights: 1. Specialized care in public and private health service providers for their specific needs, including the provision of medicines free of charge, particularly for those who require lifelong treatment. 2. Comprehensive rehabilitation and permanent assistance, including the corresponding technical aids. Reconoce el derecho de las personas con discapacidad a recibir atención especializada en salud, incluyendo el acceso gratuito a medicamentos y servicios adaptados a sus necesidades, como parte de las obligaciones del Estado de garantizar su inclusión y bienestar.

The Ombudsperson’s Office shall have the function of protecting and safeguarding the rights of the inhabitants of Ecuador and defending the rights of Ecuadorians abroad. In addition to those established by law, its powers shall include: 1. Sponsoring, ex officio or at the request of a party, actions for protection, habeas corpus, access to public information, habeas data, non-compliance, citizen actions, and complaints regarding poor quality or improper provision of public or private services. 2. Issuing measures of immediate and mandatory compliance for the protection of rights, and requesting prosecution and sanctions before the competent authority for non-compliance. 3. Investigating and resolving, within its powers, actions or omissions of natural or legal persons providing public services. 4. Exercising and promoting oversight of due process, and immediately preventing and stopping torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in all its forms. Establece las funciones de la Defensoría del Pueblo en la protección y tutela de derechos, incluyendo el patrocinio de acciones constitucionales, la supervisión del debido proceso y la prevención de violaciones de derechos.

The system shall guarantee, through the institutions that comprise it, health promotion, prevention, and comprehensive, family, and community-based care, based on primary health care; it shall articulate the different levels of care and promote complementarity with ancestral and alternative medicine. The integrated public health network shall form part of the national health system and shall be composed of an articulated set of State establishments, social security institutions, and other providers belonging to the State, with legal, operational, and complementary links. Se refiere a la organización del sistema nacional de salud, garantizando la promoción, prevención y atención integral con base en la atención primaria. Además, dispone la articulación de niveles de atención y la integración de la red pública de salud, incluyendo enfoques interculturales.

Health care as a public service shall be provided through State, private, autonomous, community entities, and those practicing ancestral, alternative, and complementary medicine. Health services shall be safe, of quality and warmth, and shall guarantee informed consent, access to information, and the confidentiality of patient information. State public health services shall be universal and free at all levels of care and shall include the necessary diagnostic procedures, treatment, medications, and rehabilitation. Establece que la atención de salud es un servicio público prestado por diversos actores, garantizando calidad, seguridad y confidencialidad. Además, dispone que los servicios públicos de salud serán universales y gratuitos en todos los niveles de atención.

The following rights are recognized and guaranteed to persons: […] 10. The right to make free, responsible, and informed decisions about one’s health and reproductive life, and to decide when and how many children to have. […] Reconoce el derecho de las personas a tomar decisiones libres, responsables e informadas sobre su salud y vida reproductiva. También garantiza la decisión sobre cuándo y cuántas hijas e hijos tener.

The following rights are recognized and guaranteed to persons: […] 2. The right to a dignified life, which ensures health, food and nutrition, safe drinking water, housing, environmental sanitation, education, work, employment, rest and leisure, physical culture, clothing, social security, and other necessary social services. […] Reconoce el derecho a una vida digna, incluyendo el acceso a salud, alimentación, agua potable y otros servicios esenciales, como parte de las condiciones necesarias para el bienestar integral de las personas.

Ecuador is a constitutional State of rights and justice, social, democratic, sovereign, independent, unitary, intercultural, plurinational, and secular. It is organized as a republic and governed in a decentralized manner. Sovereignty resides in the people, whose will is the basis of authority, and it is exercised through the organs of public power and through the forms of direct participation provided for in the Constitution. Non-renewable natural resources within the territory of the State are part of its inalienable, non-renounceable, and imprescriptible patrimony. "El Ecuador es un Estado constitucional de derechos y justicia, social, democrático, soberano, independiente, unitario, intercultural, plurinacional y laico. Se organiza en forma de república y se gobierna de manera descentralizada. La soberanía radica en el pueblo, cuya voluntad es el fundamento de la autoridad, y se ejerce a través de los órganos del poder público y de las formas de participación directa previstas en la Constitución. Los recursos naturales no renovables del territorio del Estado pertenecen a su patrimonio inalienable, irrenunciable e imprescriptible.
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"All persons, individually or collectively, have the right to:
1. Free, intercultural, inclusive, diverse, and participatory communication in all spheres of social interaction, by any means and in any form, in their own language and with their own symbols.

2. Universal access to information and communication technologies.

3. The creation of social media outlets and equal access to the use of radio spectrum frequencies for the operation of public, private, and community radio and television stations, and to unlicensed bands for the operation of wireless networks.

4. Access to and use of all forms of visual, auditory, and sensory communication, and other forms that allow for the inclusion of persons with disabilities.

5. Integration of the spaces for participation provided for in the Constitution in the field of communication." "Todas las personas, en forma individual o colectiva, tienen derecho a:
1. Una comunicación libre, intercultural, incluyente, diversa y participativa, en todos los ámbitos de la
interacción social, por cualquier medio y forma, en su propia lengua y con sus propios símbolos.
2. El acceso universal a las tecnologías de información y comunicación.
3. La creación de medios de comunicación social, y al acceso en igualdad de condiciones al uso de
las frecuencias del espectro radioeléctrico para la gestión de estaciones de radio y televisión
públicas, privadas y comunitarias, y a bandas libres para la explotación de redes inalámbricas.
4. El acceso y uso de todas las formas de comunicación visual, auditiva, sensorial y a otras que
permitan la inclusión de personas con discapacidad.
5. Integrar los espacios de participación previstos en la Constitución en el campo de la comunicación."