Responsibility of Health Systems to Cancer

International responsibility of ICAO in utilization of Satellite Navigation Systems

Development of new technologies and its growing process in the last years of the twentieth century, leads to the use of satellites in navigation. Although the technical aspects of this project has significantly improved, legal and political aspects of it, have been subject of different views of states and of international organizations related to aviation industry and though have not led to a f...

Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

Role of Spirituality and Social Responsibility in Adherence to Health Guidelines during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Background and Purpose: Spirituality and social responsibility are among the factors affecting the health of communities. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of spirituality and social responsibility with adherence to health guidelines during the Coronavirus pandemic. Materials and Methods: The present study followed a descriptive cross-sectional correlational methodology. The sta...

Revisiting the Relationship Between Systems of Innovation and Health Systems: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A Doctor’s First, and Last, Responsibility is to Care Comment on “Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health”

The obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. While Nir Eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...