Organ Shortage- A Health Social Crisis. Causes, Outcomes and Proposals

The drug shortage crisis.

The drug shortage crisis in the United States: causes, impact, and management strategies.

patient care when prescribers must use an alternative agent,” whereas the FDA focuses only on “products used to prevent or treat a serious or life-threatening disease or medical condition for which there is no other available source with sufficient supply of that product or alternative drug available.”2–5 The Drug Information Service at University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), which partners with...

Health Insecurity and Social Protection: Pathways, Gaps, and Their Implications on Health Outcomes and Poverty

Health insecurity has emerged as a major concern among health policy-makers particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It includes the inability to secure adequate healthcare today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future as well as impoverishing healthcare expenditure. The increasing health insecurity among 150 million of the world’s poor has moved social protection i...

General surgery in crisis--the critical shortage.

INTRODUCTION General surgery is facing a serious crisis. There has been a significant decline in the number of applicants for registrar posts and an inability to attract and retain general surgical specialists in the state sector. The Association of Surgeons of South Africa (ASSA) undertook this study to determine the extent and cause of the problem. METHODS The study involved a combination o...

The drugs stop here: a public health framework to address the drug shortage crisis.

Drug shortages are emerging as a major public health threat. Grave concern has been expressed by the medical community and government officials, and the crisis has been highlighted in recent media stories. Nevertheless, little has been written to date in the legal literature about the drug shortage crisis, and this timely article begins to fill this gap. It provides a thorough analysis of the o...