Equal access to the mental health care system is an important part of eliminating the ‘treatment gap’ currently exists worldwide. Thus, policymakers play a crucial role in reducing this gap and implementing regulations to combat these inequities. A social group that suffers most from the existing inequality regarding access to mental disorder treatment is people from LGBTI. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people are more prone to getting unequal mental disorder treatment than the general public. According to Zeeman et al. (2019), LGBTI is more likely to commit suicide and suffer from depression, anxiety, mental distress, substance misuse, and self-harm than the non-LGBTI population. Therefore, there is a fundamental need to provide them with quality mental healthcare services. By making the specialists of mental health services and counseling support more available as well as conducting substantive research on the needs of homosexual people’s mental health, policymakers will improve access to the mental healthcare system for LGBTI people, remove the existing barriers and provide better treatment for the overall population without exceptions.
It is crucial to consider ethical and legal issues while conducting cadaveric organ transplantation. The main bioethical principles of organ transplantation that should be considered are beneficence – to act for the benefit of a patient, non-maleficence – not to harm, autonomy – respect for a person’s choice, justice – fairness, and equality (Cotrau et al., 2019). In other words, in the organ donation and transplantation process, the act should be voluntary and consented to, respect patients’ and donors’ autonomy and data, be confidential and fair towards both sides, and be prohibited from being the source of financial revenue. In addition, the doctor who determined the donor’s brain death cannot be involved in an organ transplantation surgery. Regarding the legal regulations, both sides, a donor and a patient should sign an informed consent on organ and tissue transplantation or donation. In case of the donor’s death, family members are eligible to give their permission.
References
Cotrau, P., Hodosan, V., Vladu, A., Daina, C., Daina, L. G., & Pantis, C. (2019). Ethical, socio-cultural, and religious issues in organ donation. Maedica (Bucur), 14(1), 12-14. Web.
Zeeman, L., Sherriff, N., Browne, K., McGlynn, N., Mirandola, M., Gios, L., Davis, R., Sanchez-Lambert, J., Aujean, S., Pinto, N., Farinella, F., Donisi, V., Niedzwiedzka-Stadnik, M., Rosinska, M., Pierson, A., & Amaddeo, F. (2019). A review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) health and healthcare inequalities.European Journal of Public Health, 29(5), 974-980. Web.