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10326985

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-1
pubmed:abstractText
Biomedical ethics provides the foundation for a model of client-centered care that can assure the good quality of family planning and other reproductive health services in developed and developing countries. Client concerns mirror the four ethical principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. Autonomy reflects clients' desire for full information and respect from providers so that they can exercise their right to make their own informed decisions. Justice, for clients, means fair treatment and ready access to services, regardless of one's socioeconomic status, education, ethnic group, or residence. Beneficence means that providers possess the technical competence and understanding needed to act in the best interest of their clients, as clients expect. Nonmaleficence translates into client concerns about safety--that no harm will come to them as a result of seeking services. Putting these ethical principles into practice requires changing providers' attitudes from paternalistic to client centered. Assessments of client satisfaction can help family planning programs identify and respond to client values and even raise client expectations about the care they should receive. Managers also can contribute to good quality care by meeting providers' professional needs for training, supervision, supplies, record keeping, and so on. Family planning programs around the world are focusing on these ethical concerns to emphasize respect for client values, appropriate decision making, broader access to services, and basic safety issues. Although they use a variety of techniques, all these quality assurance and improvement initiatives share an ethically based, client-centered philosophy.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1059-7115
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
303-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Ethical foundations of client-centered care in family planning.
pubmed:affiliation
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4024, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.