Ethical Issues and Global Health

Addressing Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues in Global Health Research

1 Ethical, Social and Cultural Program for Global Health, Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for Global Health Research, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Ethical, Social and Cult...

Ethical Issues in Health

issues Distributing health care . Economic and ethical

Sundquist et al present a care need index for allocation of primary health care resources. Unfortunately, their paper rests on an erroneous description of the allocation model presently used in Stockholm, a blurred conception of need, and a mistake in the handling of data. The model used by Stockholm County Council to distribute funds between areas to purchase health care consists of four diffe...

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Legal and ethical issues in fetal surgery

Ethical issues in environmental health research.

Environmental health research encompasses a wide range of investigational topics, study designs, and empirical methodologies. As that arm of public health research concerned with understanding the health effects of the many environments in which humans live and work, the field is intimately connected with social concerns about environmental quality and disparities of power and privilege that pl...