Health rights, health ethics, and adolescence: addressing current challenges, ensuring a just future.

This article presents a discussion of the human rights declarations that address adolescent health, including reference to specific articles in the declarations that address this population; examples of ethical issues related to health that are faced by adolescents, their families, and providers who care for them; and ethical principles and frameworks that can serve as a basis for consideration of these issues. The article also includes examples of circumstances that pose ethical dilemmas for clinicians and adolescent clients and their families.