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Litins'ka, Yana, LL.D.ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-7201-8619
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Litins'ka, Y. (2022). Ability to What?: Criteria for Legal Incapacity in Russian Law (3ed.). In: Kaj Hobér, Anna Jonsson Cornell, Susanna Rabow-Edling (Ed.), The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies III: (pp. 103-122). Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ability to What?: Criteria for Legal Incapacity in Russian Law
2022 (English)In: The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies III / [ed] Kaj Hobér, Anna Jonsson Cornell, Susanna Rabow-Edling, Uppsala universitet, 2022, 3, p. 103-122Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala universitet, 2022 Edition: 3
Series
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, ISSN 0346-5462
Series
Uppsala Studies on Eastern Europe, ISSN 1104-6481 ; 9
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492265 (URN)978-91-513-1213-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-05-23Bibliographically approved
Enqvist, L. & Litins'ka, Y. (2022). Employee Health Data in European Law: Privacy is (not) an Option?. Nordic Journal of European Law, 5(1), 40-66
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Employee Health Data in European Law: Privacy is (not) an Option?
2022 (English)In: Nordic Journal of European Law, E-ISSN 2003-1785, Vol. 5, no 1, p. 40-66Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

While there are many feasible reasons for employers to process employee health data, the protection of such data is a fundamental issue for ensuring employee rights to privacy in the workplace. The sharing of health data within workplaces can lead to various consequences, such as losing a sense of privacy, stigmatisation, job insecurity and social dumping. At the European level, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)–two interconnected instruments–offer the most enforceable protection of employee health data. The article analyses the limits of employees’ right to privacy regarding health data, as delineated by the ECHR and GDPR. Using three fictive examples, we illustrate how the level of protection differs in these two instruments. In particular, we show that the protection of health data offered by the GDPR is seen as an objective act of processing at the time it is carried out, where the actual impact caused by the processing on private life is not considered. On the contrary, the ECHR’s applicability and offered level of protection in the employment context depend on subjective factors, such as the consequences of sharing the data.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lunds universitet, 2022
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492267 (URN)10.36969/njel.v5i1.24498 (DOI)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-01-09Bibliographically approved
Litins'ka, Y. (2021). Climbing the Tower of Babel: Obligations for Swedish Healthcare to Use Interpretation Services for Migrants. Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift (27-28), 149-178
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Climbing the Tower of Babel: Obligations for Swedish Healthcare to Use Interpretation Services for Migrants
2021 (English)In: Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift, ISSN 2000-6500, no 27-28, p. 149-178Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Svensk hälso- och sjukvård står inför stora utmaningar rörande kommunikation med patienter. En del av dessa utmaningar är kopplade till situationer där patienter, såsom asylsökande eller papperslösa, inte själva behärskar svenska språket. Användning av tolktjänster kan vara nödvändigt i sådana situationer. I denna artikel undersöks vårdgivarens och vårdpersonalens skyldigheter i tre situationer, nämligen, när patienten kräver tolkanvändning, när patienten vägrar tolkanvändning och när patienten inte uttrycker någon åsikt angående tolkbehov. Artikeln fokuserar på åtaganden enligt internationella konventioner om mänskliga rättigheter samt svensk allmän och speciell förvaltningsrätt. I artikeln diskuteras även regionernas tolkning av skyldigheten att erbjuda tolk. Undersökningen görs med hjälp av traditionell rättsdogmatisk metod. I artikeln dras slutsatserna att patientens vilja att ha tillgång till tolktjänster ska respekteras enligt svensk rätt, men den har inte avgörande betydelse enligt internationella åtaganden om mänskliga rättigheter. Både nationell och internationell rätt tillåter vårdgivarna att bortse från patientens önskemål om att avstå från tolkanvändning, om användning av tolk är nödvändigt för att rädda patientens liv eller hälsa. Samtidigt innebär åtaganden enligt internationella konventioner ett ansvar för regionerna att utreda orsakerna till varför patienten vägrar tolktjänster och tillhandhålla nödvändiga anpassningar. I situationer där patienter inte utrycker någon åsikt kring användningen av språktolk, ska tolkning tillhandhållas där det bedöms nödvändigt för att säkerställa patientens självbestämmande och integritet i vården. I artikeln framhävs även att regioner sällan har riktlinjer om hälso- och sjukvårdspersonalens skyldigheter att anlita tolk och de få riktlinjer som finns ser olika ut i olika delar av landet. Detta kan resultera i stora regionala skillnader i vårdtillgängligheten för asylsökande och papperslösa, samt förvirring för vårdpersonalen huruvida de är skyldiga att använda en språktolk eller ej. För att säkerställa patienters möjligheter att få vård av god kvalité, rekommenderas i artikeln att Socialstyrelsen tar fram en nationell vägledning för att klargöra vårdgivarnas och vårdpersonalens skyldigheter i de utmanande situationer som uppstår inom vården.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
eddy.se ab, 2021
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492322 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-01-19Bibliographically approved
Litins'ka, Y. (2020). Hjärt- och/eller lungtransplantation för personer som saknar permanent uppehållstillstånd.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hjärt- och/eller lungtransplantation för personer som saknar permanent uppehållstillstånd
2020 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
Heart and/or lung transplantations for persons that lack permanent resident permit
Publisher
p. 70
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492275 (URN)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-01-19Bibliographically approved
Litins'ka, Y. (2020). Samtycke och beslutskompetens i vården (1ed.). In: Kavot Zillén, Titti Mattsson och Santa Slokenberga (Ed.), Medicinsk rätt: (pp. 85-99). Norstedts Juridik AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Samtycke och beslutskompetens i vården
2020 (Swedish)In: Medicinsk rätt / [ed] Kavot Zillén, Titti Mattsson och Santa Slokenberga, Norstedts Juridik AB, 2020, 1, p. 85-99Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Norstedts Juridik AB, 2020 Edition: 1
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492277 (URN)978-91-39-11714-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-07-04Bibliographically approved
Litins'ka, Y. (2020). To force or not to force: protecting the lives of persons with dementia who refuse care. In: Hans Eklund, Lotta Lerwall & Anna-Sara Lind (Ed.), Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz: om rätt och att undervisa rätt (pp. 465-485). Uppsala: Iustus förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>To force or not to force: protecting the lives of persons with dementia who refuse care
2020 (English)In: Vänbok till Sverker Scheutz: om rätt och att undervisa rätt / [ed] Hans Eklund, Lotta Lerwall & Anna-Sara Lind, Uppsala: Iustus förlag, 2020, p. 465-485Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Iustus förlag, 2020
National Category
Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492278 (URN)9789177371106 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-03 Created: 2023-01-03 Last updated: 2023-02-01Bibliographically approved
Litins´ka, Y. (2018). Assessing capacity to decide on medical treatment: On human rights and the use of medical knowledge in the laws of England, Russia and Sweden. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Department of Law, Uppsala University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Assessing capacity to decide on medical treatment: On human rights and the use of medical knowledge in the laws of England, Russia and Sweden
2018 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

To provide a valid consent to – or refusal of – medical intervention, a patient must be legally capable to decide. This dissertation evaluates and compares when the assessment of mental abilities to refuse – or consent to – somatic medical intervention is required in England, Russia and Sweden, and what criteria must be applied to assess the ability to decide about somatic medical interventions in these legal orders. Two standards are used for evaluation and comparison. These standards are consistency with scientific knowledge of the decision-making process, and compliance with the United Nations and the Council of Europe human rights law requirements. The evaluation and comparison of the national legal orders seek to highlight the solutions and the potential difficulties that the domestic legal systems face when they attempt to realise the two standards.

The analysis in the thesis indicates that the United Nations and the Council of Europe treaty bodies have chosen different approaches as to permissibility of capacity assessment procedures. It is argued that after adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the capacity assessments of adults should not be allowed in healthcare.

A number of common problems within the selected legal systems are identified and analysed in the thesis. The question of when capacity assessments must start has not yet received much attention at national levels, which results in an absence of foreseeability and a possibility for discriminating against patients on the grounds of disability or health. The thesis highlights the fact that the national law requirements to draw a distinction between mental and somatic disorders/care are particularly problematic, and may lead to arbitrariness. The questions as to the legal classification of capacity assessment procedures (whether they are medical interventions or the collection of personal data), and accordingly, the legal status of refusal or absence of consent are also poorly foreseeable, which may lead to a violation of the patient’s right to privacy.

The analysis shows that the criteria for capacity assessments are regulated in a manner that inevitably leads to arbitrariness when deciding whether a patient can make healthcare decisions. It was shown that the criteria are interpreted differently by various actors, and no agreement as to the required level of performance is reached. It is also argued that capacity assessments rarely allow for achieving the goal of checking whether or not a patient can choose what to do with his or her own body.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Department of Law, Uppsala University, 2018. p. 701
Keywords
legal capacity, mental capacity, decision-making capacity, capacity assessment, medical treatment, consent, refusal, right to privacy, right to life, discrimination, right to health, disability, decision-making, CRPD, ECHR, human rights, mental disorder, English law, Russian law, Swedish law, somatic care
National Category
Law (excluding Law and Society)
Research subject
Medical Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361134 (URN)978-91-506-2729-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2018-12-12, Sal IV, the University Main Building, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala, 10:15 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Available from: 2018-11-21 Created: 2018-10-20 Last updated: 2020-03-20Bibliographically approved
Litins'ka, Y. & Karamyshev, D. (2016). Lost in Translation: Interpretation of Legal Capacity in Ukraine. In: Kaj Hobér, Anna Jonsson Cornell, Leonid Polishchuk (Ed.), The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies I: (pp. 168-182). London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lost in Translation: Interpretation of Legal Capacity in Ukraine
2016 (English)In: The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies I / [ed] Kaj Hobér, Anna Jonsson Cornell, Leonid Polishchuk, London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing , 2016, p. 168-182Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2016
Keywords
legal capacity, Ukraine, CRPD, translation, mental disorder, discrimination
National Category
Law (excluding Law and Society)
Research subject
Public International Law; Constitutional Law; Civil Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-308398 (URN)9780854902095 (ISBN)
Available from: 2016-11-25 Created: 2016-11-25 Last updated: 2017-05-10
Litins'ka, Y. (2014). Определение дееспособности пациентов в различных правовых системах [Defining decision-making capacity of patients in different legal systems]. In: Акулин И.М. (Ed.), Медицина и право: Volume 4 (pp. 115-120). Moscow: Издательская группа "Закон"
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Определение дееспособности пациентов в различных правовых системах [Defining decision-making capacity of patients in different legal systems]
2014 (Russian)In: Медицина и право: Volume 4 / [ed] Акулин И.М., Moscow: Издательская группа "Закон" , 2014, p. 115-120Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Moscow: Издательская группа "Закон", 2014
Keywords
mental capacity, legal capacity, refusal of medical intervention, approaches to assessment competence, дееспособность, способность принимать решения, отказ от медицинского вмешательства, подходы к оценки дееспособности
National Category
Law (excluding Law and Society)
Research subject
Medical Law
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-283521 (URN)
Available from: 2016-04-18 Created: 2016-04-13 Last updated: 2016-06-23Bibliographically approved
Projects
Decision-making capacity in healthcare: Legal theories and comparative law; Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Department of Law
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