What High-Income States Should Do to Address Industrial Antibiotic Pollution [0.03%]
高收入国家应如何应对工业抗生素污染问题
Erik Malmqvist,Christian Munthe
Erik Malmqvist
Antibiotic resistance is widely recognized as a major threat to public health and healthcare systems worldwide. Recent research suggests that pollution from antibiotics manufacturing is an important driver of resistance development. Using S...
Carl Tollef Solberg,Preben Sørheim,Karl Erik Müller et al.
Carl Tollef Solberg et al.
In recent years, it has become commonplace among the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study authors to regard the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) primarily as a descriptive health metric. During the first phase of the GBD (1990-1996), it...
Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal
Are some risks to study participants too much, no matter how valuable the study is for society? This article answers in the negative. © The Author(s) 20...
Vaccination Policies: Between Best and Basic Interests of the Child, between Precaution and Proportionality [0.03%]
疫苗政策:在儿童最佳和基本利益之间,在谨慎与比例原则之间
Roland Pierik
Roland Pierik
How should liberal-democratic governments deal with emerging vaccination hesitancy when that leads to the resurgence of diseases that for decades were under control? This article argues that vaccination policies should be justified in terms...
Vaccinating for Whom? Distinguishing between Self-Protective, Paternalistic, Altruistic and Indirect Vaccination [0.03%]
为了谁接种疫苗?自我保护、父爱主义、利他主义和间接疫苗接种的区别
Steven R Kraaijeveld
Steven R Kraaijeveld
Preventive vaccination can protect not just vaccinated individuals, but also others, which is often a central point in discussions about vaccination. To date, there has been no systematic study of self- and other-directed motives behind vac...
Patient Isolation during Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Arguments for Physical Family Presence [0.03%]
传染病暴发期间的病人隔离:支持家属物理在场的理由
Teck Chuan Voo,Zohar Lederman,Sharon Kaur
Teck Chuan Voo
This article argues that outbreak preparedness and response should implement a 'family presence' policy for infected patients in isolation that includes the option of physical visits and care within the isolation facility under some conditi...
Marcel Verweij,Angus Dawson
Marcel Verweij
Ethical Advice for an Intensive Care Triage Protocol in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from The Netherlands [0.03%]
新冠肺炎大流行下的重症监护优先方案伦理建议:荷兰的经验教训
Marcel Verweij,Suzanne van de Vathorst,Maartje Schermer et al.
Marcel Verweij et al.
At the height of the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands a shortness of intensive care beds was looming. Dutch professional medical organizations asked a group of ethicists for assistance in drafting guidelines and criteria for selection of ...
Scraping the Web for Public Health Gains: Ethical Considerations from a 'Big Data' Research Project on HIV and Incarceration [0.03%]
为了公共卫生利益而网络爬取:来自关于艾滋病和监禁的“大数据”研究项目的伦理考虑事项
Stuart Rennie,Mara Buchbinder,Eric Juengst et al.
Stuart Rennie et al.
Web scraping involves using computer programs for automated extraction and organization of data from the Web for the purpose of further data analysis and use. It is frequently used by commercial companies, but also has become a valuable too...
Global Health with Justice: Controlling the Floodgates of the Upstream Determinants of Health through Evidence-Based Law [0.03%]
全球健康与正义:通过基于证据的法律控制健康上游决定因素的泛滥闸门
John Coggon,Lawrence O Gostin
John Coggon
This article introduces a special issue on the legal determinants of health, following the publication of the Lancet-O'Neill Institute of Georgetown University Commission's report on the subject. We contextualize legal determinants as a sig...