An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: “An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine”

Article info

2021-08-29
2022-05-15
1315 - 1338

Keywords

  • Professional secret
  • Criminal protection of patients' secrets
  • Medical secret
  • Responsibility of Allied Health Professionals

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying the penal responsibility of those with health professions helping to maintain the professional (medical) secret that the patient discloses or reached by the profession on his own. The context of the legal texts, and the researcher has reached many results, the most important of which are: that the duty to maintain medical confidentiality is one of the most important duties entrusted to the providers of assistive health services, and that the disclosure of the assistive health service provider to the professional secret is a criminal misdemeanour, and the legislation in force in the State of Palestine does not define the concept Medical secret, and penal responsibility is imposed on the assisting health service provider if he violates his duty to maintain professional secrecy. The study recommended calling on the Palestinian legislator to reformulate Paragraph 3 of Article 355 of the Jordanian Penal Code. It also called on the Palestinian legislator to add financial compensation for moral damages caused to the patient and his family. In addition to enacting a law clarifying medical secrets and cases of permissibility of disclosing this secret, in line with recent medical developments in the field of diagnosis and treatment, and the danger they pose to patient confidentiality.

Recommended Citation

Shtayah, M. abd-ell-fattah. (2023). Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: “An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), 37(7), 1315–1338. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058
[1]M. abd-ell-fattah Shtayah, “Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine,’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1315–1338, Jul. 2023, doi: 10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.
Shtayah, Mohammad abd-ell-fattah. “Criminal Liability of Paramedical Professionals for Disclosing Medical Secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 37, no. 7, July 2023, pp. 1315–38. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.
1.Shtayah M abd-ell-fattah. Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: “An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) [Internet]. 2023 Jul;37(7):1315–38. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058
Shtayah, Mohammad abd-ell-fattah. “Criminal Liability of Paramedical Professionals for Disclosing Medical Secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) 37, no. 7 (July 2023): 1315–38. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.

المسؤولية الجزائية لذوي المهن الصحية المساعدة عن افشاء السر الطبي "دراسة تحليلية في التشريعات السارية في فلسطين"

معلومات المقال

2021-08-29
2022-05-15
1315 - 1338

الكلمات الإفتتاحية

  • Professional secret
  • Criminal protection of patients' secrets
  • Medical secret
  • Responsibility of Allied Health Professionals

الملخص

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على المسؤولية الجزائية لذوي المهن الصحية المساعدة في المحافظة على السر المهني (الطبي) الذي يبوح به المريض أو يتوصل إليه ذو المهنة من تلقاء نفسه، وقد استخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي من خلال وصف الظاهرة والمنهج التحليلي من خلال تحليل المعلومات ووضعها في سياق النصوص القانونية، وقد توصل الباحث إلى العديد من النتائج أهمها: أن واجب الحفاظ على السر الطبي من أهم الواجبات الملقاة على عاتق مقدمي الخدمات الصحية المساعدة، وأن إفشاء مقدم الخدمة الصحية المساعدة للسر المهني جنحة جنائية، كما لم تحدد التشريعات السارية في دولة فلسطين مفهوم السر الطبي، وتترتب المسؤولية الجزائية على مقدم الخدمة الصحية المساعدة اذا ما خالف واجبه في الحفاظ على السر المهني. وقد أوصت الدراسة بدعوة المشرع الفلسطيني إلى إعادة صياغة الفقرة 3 من المادة 355 من قانون العقوبات الأردني. كما وجهت الدعوة إلى المشرع الفلسطيني بإضافة التعويض المالي عن الأضرار المعنوية التي تلحق بالمريض وأسرته. إضافة إلى سن قانون يوضح السر الطبي وحالات الإباحة لإفشاء هذا السر، بما يتلاءم مع التطورات الطبية الحديثة في مجال التشخيص والعلاج وما تشكله من خطورة على سرية المرضى.

Recommended Citation

Shtayah, M. abd-ell-fattah. (2023). Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: “An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), 37(7), 1315–1338. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058
[1]M. abd-ell-fattah Shtayah, “Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine,’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1315–1338, Jul. 2023, doi: 10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.
Shtayah, Mohammad abd-ell-fattah. “Criminal Liability of Paramedical Professionals for Disclosing Medical Secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 37, no. 7, July 2023, pp. 1315–38. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.
1.Shtayah M abd-ell-fattah. Criminal liability of paramedical professionals for disclosing medical secrets: “An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) [Internet]. 2023 Jul;37(7):1315–38. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058
Shtayah, Mohammad abd-ell-fattah. “Criminal Liability of Paramedical Professionals for Disclosing Medical Secrets: ‘An Analytical Study of the Legislation Applied in Palestine.’” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) 37, no. 7 (July 2023): 1315–38. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247.37.7.2058.

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