Seven year overview (2007—2013) of ethical transgressions by registered healthcare professionals in South Africa

Patients' silence following healthcare staff's ethical transgressions.

The aim of this study was to examine to what extent patients remained silent to the health care system after they experienced abusive or wrongful incidents in health care. Female patients visiting a women's clinic in Sweden (n = 530) answered the transgressions of ethical principles in Health care questionnaire (TEP), which was constructed to measure patients' abusive experiences in the form of...

The promotion of road safety by healthcare professionals in South Africa.

Seven-year experience of a primary care antiretroviral treatment programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa.

OBJECTIVES We report on outcomes after 7 years of a community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa, with death registry linkages to correct for mortality under-ascertainment. DESIGN This is an observational cohort study. METHODS Since inception, patient-level clinical data have been prospectively captured on-site into an electronic patient information sy...

Migration of healthcare professionals: practical and ethical considerations.

Recruitment of healthcare professionals from developing countries to the U.K. is escalating rapidly, and is severely damaging the fragile healthcare systems of the countries involved. This is happening in spite of the Code of Practice of the Department of Health, which, although voluntary, was supposed to restrict such migration; unfortunately it has not proved effective so far. Steps are now u...

Managing Corruption in South Africa: the Ethical Responsibility of Churches

The South African society continues to stagger under an immense wave of corruption in both the private and the public sectors. Corruption is the misuse of public office or a position of authority for private, material or social gain at the expense of other people. The aim of this investigation is to discuss the phenomenon from a moral point of view and to suggest moral directives and ways that ...