Respecting adolescents' confidentiality and reproductive and sexual choices

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-187

  Cook, R J ^a   Erdman, J N ^b   Dickens, B M ^a  

^a at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent confidentiality; Confidentiality of adolescents; Convention on the Rights of the Child; Human right to confidentiality; Mature minors; Parental rights; Reproductive health confidentiality

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

EID: 34447270742     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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