International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 10 Issue 3

Child and adolescent mental and physical health: two sides of the same coin

Lee Hudson, Deborah Christie

Politics and policy of mental health

Norman Lamb

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the issues for mental health in the UK.

Mental health issues in children and adolescents with chronic illness

Alan M. Delamater, Adriana Guzman, Katherine Aparicio

The purpose of this paper is to consider mental health issues in children and adolescents with chronic illness or health conditions, including their treatment, and issues related…

Youth violence and mental health: repeating exposures

Manuel Ángel Oscós-Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to discover and describe salient repeating and less common features of the recent medical literature about youth violence as it relates to mental…

Re-uniting families in the chaos of the refugee crisis: medico-legal assessment of unaccompanied refugee minors in the Calais Jungle (mental health and legal perspectives)

Jacob Ellis, Susannah Fairweather, Mark Scott, Laura Griffiths

In total, 90,000 of the 1.26 million people applying for asylum in the EU in 2015 were unaccompanied children. The Dublin III Regulations provided a unique legal situation where…

A moral case for universal healthcare for runaway and homeless youth

Scott B. Harpin, April S. Elliott, Colette L. Auerswald

Runaway and homeless youth (RHY) are among the most vulnerable youth globally. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that all children have the…

Incarcerated youth mental and physical health: parity of esteem

Yolisha Singh, John Kasinathan, Andrew Kennedy

The purpose of this paper is to describe physical and mental health characteristics of incarcerated youth both internationally and in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. To outline…

The impact on mental and physical health of human rights as they relate to gender and sexual minority adolescents and emerging adults

Pierre-Paul Tellier

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the human rights issues pertinent to adolescents of diverse sexual orientation and gender identities and the health consequences resulting…

A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Children’s Mental Health Law

Deborah Christie