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Table 1 Themes and categories

From: Health care needs assessment among adolescents in correctional institutions in Zambia: an ethical analysis

Theme

Category

The ethical principle of beneficence

- Promoting beneficence through implementing health promotion and preventive services

- The disease burden compromising wellbeing or beneficence

- Inadequate health services affecting the realization of the ethical principle of beneficence

The case of limited autonomy

- Lack of adolescent health friendly services

- Lack of screening services for juveniles

The ethical principle of social justice

- Inadequate documenting of health care needs and referral processes

- Limited stakeholder focus on correctional institutions

- Unconducive environment contributing to high disease burden

- Erratic funding towards health services