Abstract Human rights protect the conditions of a minimally decent life of which mental health is an indispensable element. Adequate care for mental health is thus recognized as part of the human right to health. However, for populations living far from urban centers, adequate in-person (mental) health care is often extremely costly and thus not provided. Digital mental health care options have become an effective alternative to in-person treatment. Benefitting from these new digital opportunities, though, requires sufficient access to the internet. Because everyone has a human right to adequate health care, and digital mental health care is now an effective option for progressively realizing this human right for people who live in remote regions, these people also have to be understood to have a right to access to the internet. This right to internet access creates duties for public authorities and the international community to create the required digital infrastructure and (where needed) to cover the costs of internet access where this is the only feasible way of delivering, or progressively realizing, the mental health care that is indispensable for having the opportunity to lead minimally decent lives.

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互联网接入是一项权利，以实现获得适当的精神（和其他）医疗保健的人权

摘要人权保护着最低限度体面生活的条件，而心理健康是其中不可或缺的要素。因此，对精神健康的充分护理被视为健康人权的一部分。但是，对于居住在远离城市中心的人群，足够的面对面（精神）卫生保健往往非常昂贵，因此无法提供。数字心理保健服务已成为面对面治疗的有效替代方案。但是，要从这些新的数字机遇中受益，就需要足够的互联网访问权限。由于每个人都有获得充分医疗保健的人权，而数字心理医疗保健现在已成为逐步实现居住在偏远地区的人们的一项人权的有效选择，因此也必须理解这些人有权获得医疗保健服务。互联网。