Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention

Young, Peter

doi:10.5694/mja14.01361

Topics

Health services administration

Ethics and law

General medicine

Environment and public health

Social determinants of health

Global health

The perspectives of Sanggaran and colleagues accurately highlight many of the ethical dilemmas facing doctors working at the front line in immigration detention.1

Sydney, NSW

Correspondence: peter.young2@health.nsw.gov.au

Competing interests:

Until August 2014, I was the Medical Director of Mental Health Services for International Health and Medical Services, the health services provider contracted by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

1. Sanggaran J-P, Ferguson GM, Haire BG. Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention. Med J Aust 2014; 201: 377–378. <MJA full text>
2. Australian Medical Association. Medical ethics in custodial settings 2013 [position statement]. Canberra: AMA, 2013 (amended 2015).
3. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Good governance for prison health in the 21st century: a policy brief on the organization of prison health. Copenhagen: WHO, 2013.
4. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Prisoner health services in Australia 2012. (AIHW Bulletin No. 123. Cat. No. AUS 183.) Canberra: AIHW, 2014.

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