title: Pre-employment medical testing in Brazil: ethical challenges.
abstract: Pre-employment medical tests, considered to be a practice within the subspecialty of occupational medicine, are ordered by physicians on behalf of employers. Candidates for a job may be rejected if they are found to suffer from a condition that can be worsened by the job, or one that may put other workers at risk. As the physician who orders pre-employment tests is chosen by the employer, pre-employment tests can violate both the autonomy and the privacy of the individual. This paper discusses ethical conflicts inherent in pre-employment medical testing.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital of Brasilia, SGAN 604, pronto-socorro, Brasilia, DF BRAZIL e-mail: dariompm@unb.br.
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Palhares
authors.forename: Ivone
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Laurentino dos Santos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000941:ethics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000941:ethics; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000941:ethics*; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000941:ethics*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics