scholarly journals Of Minors and the Mentally Ill: Re-positioning Perspectives on Consent to Health Care

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Pare

Recognition of people’s right to consent to health care is linked to legal capacity and to respect for physical and mental integrity. Traditionally, children and persons with mental illness have been denied this right and substitute decision-making systems have been used for their protection. Today, respect for rights and freedoms forces courts and legislators to find a balance between autonomy and protection. However, domestic law lacks vision and objectives, often ending up breaching both protection and autonomy rights, or prioritizing one to the detriment of the other. One should turn to the supported decision-making model, which addresses protection concerns while respecting people’s integrity and autonomy.La reconnaissance du droit à consentir ou non à des soins de santé est liée à la question de la capacité juridique ainsi qu’à celle du respect de l’intégrité physique et mentale de la personne. Traditionnellement, les enfants et les personnes atteintes de maladie mentale se sont vu nier ce droit, et des systèmes de prise de décision au nom d’autrui ont été utilisés pour les protéger. Aujourd’hui, le respect des droits et des libertés oblige les tribunaux et les législateurs à trouver un équilibre entre autonomie et protection. Cela dit, la vision et les objectifs inscrits dans le droit interne présentent des carences; et il arrive souvent que l’on porte atteinte à la fois au droit à la protection et au droit à l’autonomie, ou que l’on accorde priorité à l’un de ces droits au détriment de l’autre. Nous devrions nous tourner vers le modèle de l’aide à la prise de décision, qui satisfait aux nécessités reliées à la protection de la personne tout en respectant l’intégrité et l’autonomie de celle-ci.

2021 ◽  
pp. 002076402199006
Author(s):  
Sailaxmi - Gandhi ◽  
Sangeetha Jayaraman ◽  
Thanapal Sivakumar ◽  
Annie P John ◽  
Anoop Joseph ◽  
...  

Background: Clientele’s attitude toward Persons with Mental Illness (PwMI) changes over a period of time. The aim of this study was to explore and understand how and whether perception about PwMI changes when they are seen working like persons without mental illness among those availing services of ROSes café at NIMHANS, Bengaluru. Methods: The descriptive research design was adopted with purposive sampling. Community Attitude toward Mentally Ill (CAMI) a self -administered questionnaire of was administered to measure the clientele attitude towards staff with mental illness in ROSes Café (Recovery Oriented Services). A total of 256 subjects availing services from the ROSes café recruited in the study. Chi-square and Mann–Whitney U test was computed to see the association and differences on selected variables. Results: The present study results showed that subjects had a positive attitude seen in health care professionals in the domains of benevolence (BE) (28.68 ± 3.00) and community mental health ideology (CMHI) (31.53 ± 3.19), whereas non-health care professionals had showed negative attitude in the domain of authoritarianism (AU) (30.54 ± 3.42) and social restrictiveness (SR) (30.18 ± 3.05). Education, employment, marital, income, and working status were significantly associated with CAMI domains. Conclusion: PwMI also can work like people without mental illness when the opportunities are provided. The community needs to regard mental illness in the same manner as chronic physical illness diabetes mellitus and allow PwMI to live a life of dignity by creating and offering opportunities to earn livelihood which would help them recover with their illnesses.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-25
Author(s):  
Dev Jayaraman ◽  
Nishan Sharma ◽  
Alannah Smrke ◽  
Jessica Simon ◽  
Peter Dodek ◽  
...  

BackgroundPoor quality communication about goals of care with seriously ill, hospitalized patients is associated with substantial discordance between prescribed medical orders for life-sustaining treatment and patients’ stated preferences. Designing tailored solutions to this discordance requires a better understanding of this communication process. ObjectiveTo acquire a detailed understanding of the process of communication about goals of care and decision making about life-sustaining treatments for hospitalized patients, and to seek opportunities for improvement. SettingMedical wards of three university-affiliated teaching hospitals in Canada. MethodAt each site, we used drop-in sessions and one-on-one interviews to consult with health care workers on eligible wards to create cross-functional (swim lane) maps of the process of communication about goals of care and decision making about life-sustaining treatments. Healthcare workers were also asked about barriers to this process to enable the identification of opportunities for improvement. ResultsA total of 112 healthcare workers provided input into the creation of process maps across the three sites. Common elements across sites were that: (1) physicians play a central role, (2) the full process for a given patient involves several interactions amongst members of the inter-professional team, and (3) the process is iterative. We also noted between-site variations in the location of GoC discussions and the extent to which trainees and multi-disciplinary team members were involved. Finally, we identified several key barriers that may serve as targets for future quality improvement efforts: suboptimal location of conversations, insufficient support of physician learners in goals-of-care conversations, and incomplete engagement of the inter-professional team. ConclusionEfforts to improve the quality of goals-of-care discussions and decision making about life-sustaining treatments in the hospital setting need to account for the central role played by physicians in the process but can be enhanced if they can more fully engage the inter-professional health care team.Resume Contexte Une communication de mauvaise qualité sur les objectifs des soins aux patients gravementmalades et hospitalisés est associée à une discordance importante entre les ordonnances médicales prescrites pour un traitement de survie et les préférences déclarées des patients. La conception de solutions adaptées à cette discordance nécessite une meilleure compréhension de ce processus de communication. ObjectifAcquérir une compréhension détaillée du processus de communication sur les objectifs des soins et la prise de décision sur les traitements de maintien de la vie pour les patients hospitalisés, et rechercher des possibilités d’amélioration. ParamètresLes services médicaux de trois hôpitaux universitaires canadiens affiliés à l’université. MéthodeSur chaque site, nous avons eu recours à des séances d’information et à des entretiens individuels pour consulter les travailleurs de la santé dans les services éligibles afin de créer des cartes interfonctionnelles (couloir de nage) du processus de communication sur les objectifs des soins et la prise de décision sur les traitements de maintien des fonctions vitales. Les travailleurs de la santé ont également été interrogés sur les obstacles à ce processus afin de permettre l’identification des possibilités d’amélioration. RésultatsAu total, 112 travailleurs de la santé ont participé à la création de cartes de processus sur les trois sites. Les éléments communs à tous les sites étaient les suivants : (1) les médecins jouent un rôle central, (2) le processus complet pour un patient donné implique plusieurs interactions entre les membres de l’équipe interprofessionnelle, et (3) le processus est itératif. Nous avons également noté des variations entre les sites en ce qui concerne le lieu des discussions du gouvernement et le degré d’implication des stagiaires et des membres de l’équipe pluridisciplinaire. Enfin, nous avons identifié plusieurs obstacles clés qui pourraient servir de cibles aux futurs efforts d’amélioration de la qualité : le lieu sous-optimal des conversations, le soutien insuffisant des apprenants médecins dans les conversations sur les objectifs de soins et l’engagement incomplet de l’équipe interprofessionnelle. ConclusionLes efforts visant à améliorer la qualité des discussions sur les objectifs des soins et la prise de décision concernant les traitements vitaux en milieu hospitalier doivent tenir compte du rôle central joué par les médecins dans le processus, mais peuvent être renforcés s’ils peuvent faire participer davantage l’équipe interprofessionnelle de soins de santé.


Author(s):  
Anastasius Moumtzoglou

People-centered health care represents a structural change in thinking, which encapsulates before anything else the consideration of the patient. The development of people-centered care might include a partnership approach based on equal footing, capacity-building and the expansion of organizational care. Its central values encompass empowerment, participation, family, community, and the abolition of any kind of discrimination. As a result, they bestow people on shared decision-making not exclusively on issues of treatment but also for health care organization. On the other hand, a global e-health agreement is beginning to take shape on the engagement of stakeholders, the interoperability, and standards. Consequently, e-health can have a significant impact on people-centered care, despite the challenges of implementation and adoption.


1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
John Barnes ◽  
Greg Wilkinson

Much of the medical care of the long-term mentally ill falls to the general practitioner (Wilkinson et al, 1985) and, for example, a survey in Buckinghamshire showed that these patients consult their general practitioner (GP) twice as often as mental health services. Lodging house dwellers are known to show an increased prevalence of major mental illness and to suffer much secondary social handicap, presenting a challenge to helping services of all disciplines. For this reason we chose a lodging house in which to explore further the relationships between mental illness and residents' present contact with their GP, mental health services and other local sources of help.


1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhao ◽  
W. G. Price ◽  
P. A. Wilson ◽  
M. Tan

It is well known that many collisions occur because one ship turns right whilst the other turns left when in close proximity to one another. Little is known as to why this occurs and, although some simulation models have been established using entropy theory, the problem remains unsolved.In this paper, an assessment model for uncertainty is reviewed briefly. The concepts of uncertainty and uncoordination of mariners' behaviour in collision avoidance are discussed. A simulation model in conjunction with a DCPA (distance to the closest point of approach) decision-making model using fuzzy programming is introduced to discuss coordination.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Ratna Dewi

AbstrakMigrasi penduduk merupakan salah satu upaya yang dilakukan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan hidup. Hal ini juga terjadi pada pasien kanker. Keterbatasan fasilitas kesehatan di daerah asal akan dapat mendorong mereka untuk mencari pengobatan di luar tempat tinggalnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses pengambilan keputusan untuk melakukan mobiitas pada pasien kanker yang melakukan pengobatan di yogyakarta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keterbatasan pelayanan kesehatan di daerah asal menyebabkan pasien melakukan pengobatan keluar daerahnya. Ada banyak pertimbangan bagi pasien kanker untuk mengambil keputusan melakukan migrasi. Pertimbangan dapat berupa pengaruh dari dalam maupun luar diri pasien. Kuatnya ikatan kekeluargaan membuat mereka berat meninggalkan daeraah asalnya. Proses pengambilan keputusan bukanlah hal yang mudah karena berkaitan dengan keluarga ataupun pekerjaan yang harus ditinggalkan. Pilihan daerah tujuan dipengaruhi oleh beberapa hal, antara lain jarak antara tempat tinggal dengan kota tujuan, informasi yang diterima mengenai daerah tujuan, dan penilaian pasien kanker terhadap daeah tujuan.Kata-kata Kunci: migrasi sirkuler, kajian lokal Yogyakarta, social ekonomiAbstractPeople migration is an effort to fulfill their living needs. It was happened to the cancer patients. Limited facility of health services in one place can encourage people to get a healing outside the town of origin where the more complete facilities are available. The contrast in the services and facilities of health sector inter-regionally has become one of the matters encouring people to move to find far more complete health facilities. This research was aimed to determine the process of the decision-making of the cancer patient for treatment in Yogyakarta. This happened due to the limited cancer facilities and services in a number of hospitals. The result of the research shows that the limitation of health care facilities in the native region is one of the matters causing the patients to take medication outside their domicilies. There are many considerations to decide to move. Those considerations are the external and also internal effects. The strength of the kinship makes people are hard to leave their town of origin. The decision is not easy to be taken due to issues related to the family or the work which must be abandoned.In case of choosing the recovery place, there are some considerations on it, there are, the distance from the town of origin, the affection from the other people, and the condition or environment.


Author(s):  
Martin Summers

The conclusion provides a summation of the book’s main arguments and offers suggestions for further research in the history of African American mental health. It reasserts the two central theses. First, Saint Elizabeths’ psychiatrists’ construction and reaffirmation of the white psyche as the norm produced a great deal of ambiguity regarding the nature of black insanity. This contributed to the prioritizing of the white sufferer of mental illness and the marginalization of mentally ill blacks. Second, African American patients and their communities exercised agency in their interactions with Saint Elizabeths, both to shape the therapeutic experience and to assert their status as citizens. This latter argument suggests that the orthodox view that African Americans have generally had an indifferent or antagonistic relationship to psychiatry needs to be rethought, which will require further historical scholarship, particularly with respect to African American activism within the realm of mental health care.


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