The right of caregivers to access health information of relatives with mental illness

被引：8
作者：
Chan, Billy Wing Yum [1 ]
O'Brien, Ann-Marie [2 ]
机构：
[1] Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Law & Mental Hlth Program, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada
[2] Carleton Univ, Sch Social Work, Royal Ottawa Mental Hlth Ctr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
来源：
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY | 2011年 / 34卷 / 06期
关键词：
Confidentiality; Caregiver rights; Mentally ill relatives; FAMILY INTERVENTIONS; PERSPECTIVES; CONFIDENTIALITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; EXPERIENCE; CARERS; PEOPLE; WORK;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.10.002
中图分类号：
D9 [法律]; DF [法律];
学科分类号：
0301 ;
摘要：
This article reviews the legal, ethical and practical challenges of complying with the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) within the context of a Canadian mental health system that is overburdened and under resourced. The advent of deinstitutionalization has placed significantly increased responsibilities on the families of mentally ill individuals. While research evidences that involving family members in the care of their mentally ill relatives improves treatment outcomes, mental health practitioners constantly face the challenge of engaging family caregivers while also complying with privacy laws. The authors propose an Ontario Caregiver Recognition Act (OCRA) to formally recognize family caregivers as informal health information custodians based on the practice of other jurisdictions which incorporate the rights of family members actively engaged in providing care to their mentally ill relatives. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：386 / 392
页数：7
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