Ethical dilemmas in policy practice<b>:</b> a Conceptual Framework

Diagnosing the Implementation of Health Tourism Policy in Iran: a Conceptual Framework

Background: Globalization of health services has led to the emergence of a new segment of tourism called Health Tourism. The link between the health and tourism industry due to the benefits of trading, economics and the development of health systems in many countries, is considered as one of the priorities in health and tourism development. But making this link and development of health tourism...

Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework

Legal change, whether through legislation, regulation, or court decision, is a common phenomenon, and virtually all reform creates both gains and losses for those who under the prior regime took actions that would have lasting effects. This article offers a conceptual framework for assessing the desirability of different transition policies, ranging from compensation of losses and taxation of g...

Health promotion: ethical and social dilemmas of government policy.

Ethical Dilemmas in Sampling

This paper focuses on sampling as a nexus of ethical dilemmas experienced by social workers and other applied empirical researchers. It is argued here that social workers and other applied researchers have an ethical obligation to construct the smallest representative samples possible. Although random sampling is considered by many researchers as the gold standard methodological procedure for m...

Ethical dilemmas in pharmacy.

Results of surveys in which pharmacy students and pharmacists responded to ethical dilemmas are discussed. Respondents indicated a high level of concern about patient welfare and patient rights in dilemmas involving conflicts with socio-economic issues, and with peers and physicians. Conflicts that might arise as the roles of pharmacists change and the health-care systems evolve are also discus...