Reflections on curative health care in Nicaragua.

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Ethical Reflections on Health Care Robotics

The rapid developments of robotics technologies in the last twenty years of the XX century have greatly encouraged research on the use of robots for surgery, diagnosis, rehabilitation, prosthetics, and assistance to disabled and elderly people. This chapter provides an overview of robotic technologies and systems for health care, focussing on various ethical problems that these technologies giv...

Reflections on Geographic Variations in U.S. Health Care

With funding from the National Institutes for Health and not-for-profit foundations, the goal of the Dartmouth research team has been to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of variation in the way health care is delivered around the country. Why do some primary care physicians order more than twice as many CT scans as their colleagues in the same practice? Why are the rates...

Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Ca...

Limping is no sin: reflections on Making Health Care Decisions.