title: Health rights, health ethics, and adolescence: addressing current challenges, ensuring a just future.
abstract: This article presents a discussion of the human rights declarations that address adolescent health, including reference to specific articles in the declarations that address this population; examples of ethical issues related to health that are faced by adolescents, their families, and providers who care for them; and ethical principles and frameworks that can serve as a basis for consideration of these issues. The article also includes examples of circumstances that pose ethical dilemmas for clinicians and adolescent clients and their families.
authors: Medical School of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. evelynbrasil@hotmail.com
authors: Evelyn
authors: E
authors: Eisenstein
authors: Irene Anne
authors: IA
authors: Jillson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000941:ethics*; D002648:Child; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D055815:Young Adult