Navigating in the landscape of care: a critical reflection on theory and practise of care and ethics [0.03%]
关怀中的伦理与实践的理论和实证批判性反思
Eva Skærbæk
Eva Skærbæk
The theory and practise of care is defined and enacted differently in different national as well as cultural contexts, illuminating how differently constructed the personal and societal structures in Europe are. A common trait is however th...
Hester M Van de Bovenkamp,Margo J Trappenburg
Hester M Van de Bovenkamp
Patient organizations increasingly play an important role in health care decision-making in Western countries. The Netherlands is one of the countries where this trend has gone furthest. In the literature some problems are identified, such ...
Jenny Slatman
Jenny Slatman
Evaluation of quality of life, psychic and bodily well-being is becoming increasingly important in oncology aftercare. This type of assessment is mainly carried out by medical psychologists. In this paper I will seek to show that body exper...
Christiaan J Lako,Pauline Rosenau,Chris Daw
Christiaan J Lako
The study is designed to provide an informal summary of what is known about consumer switching of health insurance plans and to contribute to knowledge about what motivates consumers who choose to switch health plans. Do consumers switch pl...
Mental health consumer-operated services organizations in the US: citizenship as a core function and strategy for growth [0.03%]
美国的mental health消费者运营服务组织：作为核心功能和增长策略的公民身份
Sandra J Tanenbaum
Sandra J Tanenbaum
Consumer-operated services organizations (COSOs) are independent, non-profit organizations that provide peer support and other non-clinical services to seriously mentally ill people. Mental health consumers provide many of these services an...
Can questions of the privatization and corporatization, and the autonomy and accountability of public hospitals, ever be resolved? [0.03%]
公立医院私有化、公司化及其自主性和问责性的问题能否得到解决？
Jeffrey Braithwaite,Joanne F Travaglia,Angus Corbett
Jeffrey Braithwaite
Although there is a long-standing international debate concerning the privatization and corporatization of health services, there has been relatively little systematic analysis of the ways these types of reform manifest. We examine the impa...
Abraham Rudnick
Abraham Rudnick
The relation between the notions of (medical) invasiveness and (actual or potential) harm has not been systematically discussed nor theoretically grounded, despite its importance to clinical-ethical practice. This paper aims to clarify the ...
Thomas Mathar
Thomas Mathar
This study aims to compare and contrast how specific information health technologies (IHTs) have been debated, how they have proliferated, and what they have enabled in Germany’s and England’s healthcare systems. For this a discourse anal...
John E Ataguba,Gavin Mooney
John E Ataguba
This paper argues that there is a need to move yet further than has already been suggested by some from the individual to the collective as a base for public health. A communitarian approach is one way to achieve this. This has the advantag...
Daniel Patrone,David Resnik
Daniel Patrone
In a severe influenza pandemic, hospitals will likely experience serious and widespread shortages of patient pulmonary ventilators and of staff qualified to operate them. Deciding who will receive access to mechanical ventilation will often...