child:right:care

An interdisciplinary procedural model of participation

The right to participation in child health care, best practices, barriers, and outlook

The present project engages models and the right to participation in child health care, from an inter-disciplinary perspective (Mental Health, Pediatrics, Public Health, Sociology of Health and Law) and aims at describing theoretical, normative and practical views to incorporate the idea and the right that every minor aged patient ought to participate across different medical contexts.

The Research

Legal and Policy Perspectives: Materials and legal comparison

Ut enim aeque doleamus animo, cum corpore dolemus, fieri tamen permagna accessio potest, si aliquod aeternum. Ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio.

Qui liber cum et mortem contemnit, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest. Praeterea bona.

Institutional Perspectives: Health care professionals understanding of participation

Ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. Qui liber cum et mortem contemnit, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest. Praeterea bona.

Ut enim aeque doleamus animo, cum corpore dolemus, fieri tamen permagna accessio potest, si aliquod aeternum.

Individual Perspectives: Children and adolescents’ lives and subjective experience

Ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. Qui liber cum et mortem contemnit, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest. Praeterea bona.

Ut enim aeque doleamus animo, cum corpore dolemus, fieri tamen permagna accessio potest, si aliquod aeternum.

Individual Perspectives: Parent’s understanding of participation of their child

Ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. Qui liber cum et mortem contemnit, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.

Ut enim aeque doleamus animo, cum corpore dolemus, fieri tamen permagna accessio potest, si aliquod aeternum.

→ A transdisciplinary model for participation

Ullus investigandi veri, nisi inveneris, et quaerendi defatigatio turpis est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. Qui liber cum et mortem contemnit, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.

  • Model of participation
  • Collection of best practices and barriers
  • Recommendations
    • to legislation and policy
    • to health institutions
    • to individuals

Ut enim aeque doleamus animo, cum corpore dolemus, fieri tamen permagna accessio potest, si aliquod aeternum.

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12

1. States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.

2. For this purpose, the child shall in particular be provided the opportunity to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting the child, either directly, or through a representative or an appropriate body, in a manner consistent with the procedural rules of national law.