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WebThe briefs, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts. The Hastings Center is a bioethics research institute and the …

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Ethics and Public Health

WebPublic Health Ethics and Law. Public health encompasses what society does to assure the conditions that are necessary for its members to be healthy, including …

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Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions

WebSummary . An ethically sound framework for health care during public health emergencies must balance the patient-centered duty of care—the focus of clinical ethics under normal conditions—with public …

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Immigrant Health – Bioethics in Community Health

WebCreating Systems of Safety for Immigrant Health (2018) Funded by: Open Society Foundations Public Health Program. This public health convening reflected accelerating …

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Bioethics in Community Health

WebThe World Health Organization defines community health as the environmental, social, and economic resources people need for their physical and emotional wellbeing in the place …

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Environment, Ethics, and Human Health

WebRelationships between human health and the environment often involve competing values and interests and therefore raise many ethical, social, and political …

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Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Access to …

WebOther barriers to health care that undocumented immigrants face include difficulties navigating the health care system; linguistic, literacy, and other challenges in …

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Racism and Health Equity

WebIn fact, health equity in general is compromised when any group doesn’t have the resources needed for health, as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown. Racism is …

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Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: U.S. Health Policy …

WebWith the exception of emergency medical care, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded public health insurance programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and …

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What Is Bioethics

WebWhat Is Bioethics? Bioethics is the interdisciplinary study of ethical issues arising in the life sciences, health care, technology, and health and science policy. It examines the ethical, …

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Rebuilding Trust in Health Care and Science

WebRebuilding Trust in Health Care and Science. While confidence in many institutions has been declining for decades, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the …

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Legalized Medical Discrimination Violates Medical Ethics

WebFor a health care worker to use such a power violates beneficence and nonmaleficence since depriving someone of medical care on arbitrary grounds harms the …

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Beyond the Covid Crisis—A New Social Contract with Public Health

WebPublic health leadership can aid communities in moving beyond these motivations to a sense of common purpose and solidarity. Bruce Jennings is adjunct …

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Nurses at the Table: Nursing, Ethics, and Health Policy

WebAuthored mostly by nurses, this special report examines how the profession addresses obstinate everyday ethics and health policy challenges and proposes further …

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Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People: Q&A with Theodore …

WebThe term “gender-affirming care” is almost always applied to treatment for transgender people, but an article in the current issue of the Hastings Center Report …

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Bioethics and Racism

WebRacism threatens health equity by withholding resources people need for proper health based on morally arbitrary features like skin color. Poor health outcomes …

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Health Equity Without Ethics Perpetuates Marginalization

WebHealth Equity Without Ethics Perpetuates Marginalization. by Virginia A. Brown, Jamie Riches and Renee McLeod-Sordjan Published March 29, 2023 Posted in …

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Looking Back 10 Years: How Far Have We Come in Mental Health …

WebSeveral of the authors—both 10 years ago and today—discussed the reality that recovery from mental illness can be elusive, and that it can mean different things to …

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The Covid Threat No One Is Talking About: Wearing Scrubs in Public

WebA systematic review of the literature shows that nearly two dozen studies found scrubs contained pathogenic hazards and transmitted multidrug-resistant bacteria, …

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Newly Released Documents from Untreated Syphilis Study: Ethical, …

WebTo mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the United States Public Health Service’s Syphilis Study, the National Library of Medicine recently digitized and released …

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Social-Change Games Can Help Us Understand the Public Health …

WebBefore there was the Covid-19 pandemic, there was Pandemic. This tabletop game, in which players collaborate to fight disease outbreaks, debuted in 2007. …

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