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Health Equity and the Circle of Human Concern

Health care-related decisions currently unfold from a starting position of a restricted circle of human concern. At the time this article … See more

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Hospital Ethics Committees, Consultants, and Courts

WebGeorge Annas, JD, MPH is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the schools of public health, medicine, and law at Boston University, where he is also the director of …

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How to Apply the Fourteenth Amendment to the …

WebScott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE is a senior research associate for the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs in Chicago, Illinois, where he is also …

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Bringing Health Professions Education to Patients on the …

WebAbstract. This article considers strategies for illuminating health systems’ structural violence toward people experiencing homelessness and for resisting incursion of moral injury to …

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Promoting Health as a Human Right in the Post-ACA …

WebThe World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution of 1946 declared that the “enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health”—defined as “a state of complete physical, …

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Effects of Lifestyle on Health Status Journal of Ethics

WebIt has become increasingly clear in recent decades that lifestyle factors contribute significantly to the ever-growing burden of chronic disease. Two behavioral …

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How Should Health Professionalism Be Redefined to …

WebAbstract. Increasing focus on health equity is placing a spotlight on health professionals’ roles. Recent public health crises—the opioid epidemic, maternal mortality, and the …

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Evolving Roles of Health Care Organizations in …

WebSocial, environmental, and economic inequities are widely recognized as major drivers of health disparities. 1 As the US health care system shifts towards greater emphasis on …

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How Medicaid and States Could Better Meet Health …

WebAbstract. An estimated 580 000 people experienced homelessness on any single night in the United States in 2020. This article argues that, to address these persons’ unmet needs, …

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Hospitals’ Obligations to Address Social Determinants of …

WebHannah R. Sullivan is a legal scholar for the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs in Chicago, Illinois. She received her bachelor’s …

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Training Clinicians to Care for Patients Where They Are

WebJames J. O'Connell, MD is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and the president and founding physician of Boston Health Care …

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Health Equity, Cuban Style

WebAs many readers know, the United States spends more on health care than any other country by far—$11 072 per capita in 2019. 1 Yet the health status of the US population, …

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THE HITECH ACT: An Overview

WebTHE HITECH ACT: An Overview. Before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare,” or, more generally, health reform, Congress had …

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What Are “Social Prescriptions” and How Should They Be …

WebAbstract. Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worsened morbidity and mortality. Despite wide recognition of this fact, little is understood about how to …

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Professional Boundaries and Meaningful Care Journal of Ethics

WebAccordingly, this issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics seeks to provide perspectives and guidance on navigating the patient-physician relationship and observing professional …

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Articles Journal of Ethics American Medical Association

WebMapping a Way to Displaced Persons’ Access to Quality Medicines. Carly Ching, PhD and Muhammad H. Zaman, PhD. Reliable supply of quality-assured medicines is hard to …

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How to Use Humor in Clinical Settings

WebWe know that humor and laughter are shown to decrease levels of stress hormones, 1, 2 lower blood pressure, 3 strengthen the immune system, 4, 5, 6 decrease …

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Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black

WebAMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E768-772. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.768.

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April 2020, Volume 22, Number 4: E344-345 ART OF MEDICINE

Web344 www.journalofethics.org AMA Journal of Ethics ®. April 2020, Volume 22, Number 4: E344-345 . ART OF MEDICINE . Cohesion in Distancing . Michael Shen, MD

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AMA Journal of Ethics

Web344 www.journalofethics.org AMA Journal of Ethics® April 2020, Volume 22, Number 4: E344-345 ART OF MEDICINE Cohesion in Distancing Michael Shen, MD

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AMA Journal of Ethics

Web192 www.amajournalofethics.org AMA Journal of Ethics®. February 2019, Volume 21, Number 2: E192-195 . ART OF MEDICINE . What Do Warhol, Pollock, and Murakami …

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Federal Privacy Protections: Ethical Foundations, Sources of …

WebDOI 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.3.pfor5-1603. Acknowledgements. We would like to acknowledge our debt to our colleague, Amy McGuire, whose lectures on privacy and …

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