Suicide Prevention Policy Guideline Model Considering Privacy Law in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Objectives This study aimed to review the Korean Constitution articles 14 and 20 of the “Law on suicide prevention” and investigate public perceptions of specific improvements to suicide prevention policies using results from the Korean 2018 National Survey on Suicide.
Methods The questionnaire was designed to analyzing the act restricts sharing of patient information between hospitals, making it difficult to track suicide attempts. The questionnaire was also designed to suggest further medical and normative criteria for objective judgment of continuous follow-up utilizing suicide risk evaluations and proportional principle review that consider patients’ and medical staff’s basic rights.
Results This study identified the result of the 1500 respondents, 79.1% believed that Korea should allow suicide prevention management to be implemented without requiring individual consent to protect suicide attempters.
Conclusions According the results, I propose the following criteria for policy improvement: use of anonymized information and non-profit research for technical and ethical considerations, access to medical information only for therapeutic purposes, and use of surgical severity assessment criteria appropriate for Korea.

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