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.

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.

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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.

La voluntad anticipada en salud mental (VASM) constituye un derecho de la persona con trastorno mental, para que de manera previsora acepte o rechace tratamientos que en el futuro pueda requerir de los servicios de atención médica. Objetivo: Describir las especificaciones contenidas en las regulaciones de las VASM en algunos países latinoamericanos que cuentan con legislación en salud mental, que permitan su realización. Método: Se llevó a cabo un análisis comparativo de las normativas vigentes sobre salud mental que incluyen las VASM en Argentina, Chile, México y Perú, considerando: 1) concepción de las VASM; 2) requisitos de las VASM, y 3) características del modo de obtención. Resultados: En Argentina, Chile y México, la VASM es un derecho asociado al resguardo de la voluntad y las preferencias de las personas con respecto a las acciones que determinan sean o no tomadas ...