Political regime and suicide: some relevant variables to be considered

Physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia: some relevant differences.

Variables and scopes considered formally

We consider what natural language explanations are required to present a formalism. We desire to be as complete as possible, leaving nothing implicit, and yet to keep the natural language to a minimum, moving as quickly as possible away from informal explanations and into the formalism. We also try to keep the informal explanation as independent as possible of the formalism being presented. We ...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Suicide and political regime in New South Wales and Australia during the 20th century.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Australia has had a two party parliamentary political system for most of the period since its Federation in 1901, dominated either by a social democratic (Labor) or a conservative ideological perspective. This paper investigates whether such political differences at Federal and State levels have influenced suicide rates in the state of New South Wales (NSW) for the period 1901-1...

What variables should be considered in allocating Primary health care Pharmaceutical budgets to districts in Uganda?

OBJECTIVES A key policy question for the government of Uganda is how to equitably allocate primary health care pharmaceutical budgets to districts. This paper seeks to identify variables influencing current primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure and their usefulness in allocating prospective pharmaceutical budgets to districts. METHODS This was a cross sectional, retrospective observa...