Oral health - a shared responsibility

Personal responsibility in oral health: ethical considerations.

Personal responsibility is a powerful idea supported by many values central to West European thought. On the conceptual level personal responsibility is a complex notion. It is important to separate the concept of being responsible for a given state of affairs from the concept of holding people responsible by introducing measures that decrease their share of available resources. Introducing per...

Prepregnancy Care: A Shared Responsibility

The effective management of pregnancies complicated by diabetes is a shared responsibility—an equal partnership between health care professionals and a responsible woman. Over the last 30 years, major advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and care of diabetes has led to the hope that pregnancy outcomes for women with diabetes would be similar to the outcomes for women without dia...

Mutual obligation, shared responsibility agreements & indigenous health strategy

Since 2004 the Howard Coalition government has implemented a new policy framework and administrative arrangements as part of its program of reform in Indigenous affairs. In this paper I will describe both the parameters of this reform program and review the processes established to support the implementation of national Indigenous health strategy. In particular, I will consider both the shift f...

Communication about vaccination: A shared responsibility

Vaccine hesitancy is an important issue to be addressed, due to the risk of decrease of vaccination coverage and consequent control of preventable diseases. While it is not considered a specific determinant, poor or inadequate communication can contribute to vaccine hesitancy and negatively influence vaccination uptake. As a contribution to the ongoing discussion regarding this theme and in the...

Effective mine risk education – a shared responsibility