The Landscape of the Legal Aspects of Informed Consent for Medical Treatment in Papua New Guinea
作者机构：School of LawUniversity of Papua New GuineaWaiganiPost Office Box 126National Capital DistrictPapua New Guinea Institute of StatisticsCollege of Arts and SciencesUniversity of the Philippines Los BañosLos BañosLaguna 4031Philippines
出 版 物：《Journal of Health Science》 (健康科学（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2019年第7卷第6期
页 面：337-349页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Autonomy prior informed consent valid consent traditional custom
摘 要：The major challenges militating against the proper practice of informed consent identified in our desk top review are related to cultural issues of the *** patients continue to value strongly their kinship ties with the past and believe in the traditional methods of healing *** patients must be given some information about what the doctor proposes to *** underlying spirit of informed consent is new in PNG,and it strives against the traditional attitudes of doctors that they know it best for the patients and the strong culture in customs and patients’misconceptions that affect their perceptions in making important health care *** of the patients have some notion of informed consent,however not many people understand what it *** still hang onto their traditional customs,beliefs and opinions that affect their health care decisions;they often look to their village elders,family and parents for advice in times of sickness or death in the family but where the law implies consent it is not often *** of current laws,reports of legal cases,and personal experiences were *** requirements must be prescribed when patients are subjected to medical *** of a well-defined process,not only on paper,may not only protect the medical doctor from exposure to liability but increases the patient’s autonomy in decisions concerning health and encourages compliance with treatment;and advances the interests of both patient and *** of informed consent can reinforce a claim of medical malpractice,and could well undermine relevant health care policy to protect patient autonomy.
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