Implementation of the patient's right to obtain information in the concept “health and human rights”
Keywords:
“health and human rights” concepts, information, legal regulation, medical confidentiality, patient rights.
Abstract
The article explores the features of legal regulation of patient’s right to access information in the medical activity field.
The reasons for violation of saving of information about patient’s health are the lack of knowledge of law and no understanding the harm that caused if patient’s confidentiality is violated. The analysis of medical confidentiality content, lawful disclosure cases, the conditions and procedure for its legal support. Subjects who received information constituting a medical secret don`t have right to disclose it, legal liability is provided for such norms violation. The medical confidentiality concept and the group of subjects of such legal relations is established.
The purpose of the article is to determine the peculiarities of realization of patients’ right to access information in the medical activity field and its protection ways when studying the “health and human rights” concept.
Comparative legal and comparative methods were used when studying legislative acts governing the preservation by persons who received information constituting medical secrecy and legal cases of their disclosure. The formal logical method was used to differentiate “medical secret” and “professional secret”. Modeling, analysis and synthesis methods helped to identify the legal basis for protecting the patient`s rights when receiving information about their health, legal responsibility types for its disclosure. The results of this work have determined the legislation of legal problems that arise when patients’ rights to receive reliable information about their health aren`t respected and require immediate resolution.
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Galay V.O. (2010) Realization of human and citizen's rights in the context of patient's rights protection: theoretical and legal aspect. (Thesis PhD). Kyiv, 20 p.
Mariev V. V. (2011). Patient as a victim of a crime. Actual problems of the state and law. 60. 72-77.
Marushchak I.A. (2007) Medical secrecy and confidential medical information: issues of legal regulation. Managing a healthcare facility. 5, 24-29.
Measures to combat and abuse drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors: Law of Ukraine No. 62/95-VR. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 15 February‚ 1995. No.10. Art. 62.
Michalak K. (2014) The essence of medical secrecy according to the Polish law. Prog Health Sci, 4(1). 239 -244.
Mikhailov S.V. (2012). Legal regulation of medical secrecy. Bulletin of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. 3. 218-226.
Mishra, N. N., Parker, L. S., Nimgaonkar, V. L., & Deshpande, S. N. (2008). Privacy and the Right to Information Act, 2005. Indian journal of medical ethics, 5(4), 158–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2008.057
Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine: Law of Ukraine No. 1618-IV. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 18 March‚ 2004. No. 40-41. No. 42. Art. 492.
On combating the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diseases and the legal and social protection of people living with HIV: Law of Ukraine No. 1972-XII of 12 December, 1991. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 1992. No. 11. Art. 152.
On the application of transplantation of anatomical materials to humans: Law of Ukraine No. 2427-VIII. Information of the Verkhovna Rada, 17 May‚ 2018. No. 28. Art. 232.
On the prevention and counteraction to domestic violence: Law of Ukraine No. 2229-VIII. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 07 December‚ 2017. No. 5. Art. 35.
On the protection of the population from infectious diseases: Law of Ukraine No. 1645-III. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 06 April‚ 2001. No. 29. Art. 228.
Petrukhin I.L. (1989) Personal life: the limits of intervention. Moscow., Publishing House "Legal Literature". 192 p.
Rieder P., Louis-Courvoisier M., Huber P. (2016) The end of medical confidentiality? Patients, physicians and the state in history. Medical Humanities; 42:149-154.
Schafer A., Northover J. M. (1985). Medical secrecy: patients' right of access to medical records. The patient record--the case for restricted access. Humane Med. 1(2): 91-9.
Senyuta I. Ya. (2007) Medical Law: Human Right to Health: A Monograph. Lviv: Astolabia, 224 p.
Stetsenko, S.G., Stetsenko, V.Yu., Senyuta I.Ya. (2008) Medical Law of Ukraine: Textbook Kyiv: Legal Unity, 507 p.
Sullivan R.J, Menapace L.W, White R.M. (2001). Truth-telling and patient diagnoses Journal of Medical Ethics; 27:192-197.
Talbot S. (2013). Advancing human rights in patient care through strategic litigation: challenging medical confidentiality issues in countries in transition. Health and human rights. 15(2), 69-79.
Tavakoli N., Isfahani S. S, Piri Z., Amini A. (2013). Patient Access to Electronic Health Record: A Comparative Study on Laws, Policies and Procedures in Selected Countries. Medical Archives. Feb; 67(1): 63-67.
DOI: 10.5455/medarh.2013.67.63-67.
The family code of Ukraine: Law of Ukraine No. 2947-III. Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 10 January‚ 2002. No. 21-22. Art. 135.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: International document No 995_015 of 10 December‚ 1948. Official Bulletin of Ukraine. 2008. No. 93. Art. 3103
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Zelinsky A. (2006) To the question of the concept of "patient". University research notes. 2. 139-143.
Сonvention on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms International document No 995_004. Official Bulletin of Ukraine. 04 April‚ 1950. No. 13. 270.
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2020-05-18
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Shevchuk, O., Kucheryavenko, M., Davydenko, S., & Babaieva, O. (2020). Implementation of the patient’s right to obtain information in the concept “health and human rights”. Amazonia Investiga, 9(29), 288-296. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2020.29.05.33
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