Responsabilidad de los padres, secreto profesional y confidencialidad médica. ¿Cómo se conjugan para asegurar la salud de los adolescentes

Parent’s responsibility, professional secrecy and medical confidentiality. How do they combine to ensure adolescentshealth?The article carefully analyzes the definition and content of professional secrecy and the right to privacy and introduces their implications on public and private policy. On tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Kemelmajer de Carlucci, Aída
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2012
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4272
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/4272
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:professional secrecy
confidentiality
adolescents
parents responsibility
secreto profesional
confidencialidad
adolescentes
responsabilidad de los padres
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Summary:Parent’s responsibility, professional secrecy and medical confidentiality. How do they combine to ensure adolescentshealth?The article carefully analyzes the definition and content of professional secrecy and the right to privacy and introduces their implications on public and private policy. On that basis, main arguments in favor and against adolescents entitle to exercise the right to professional secrecy towards their representatives are presented. Finally, this article presents the existing case-law on that subject, provisions according the Ottawa Declaration and specific cases concerning professional secrecy exercise in the assumptions on termination pregnancy and HIV diagnosis.