The pandemic and beyond; ethical challenges, racial disparities

Medical Travel: The Ethical and Legal Challenges

Medical tourism is a term referring to the people traveling to other countries to obtain medical care. Like any other rapid growing indus­try, medical tourism has prompted ethical and legal issues. These issues are mainly pertained to malpractice and consumer protection. Beside these, risk management, foreign hospital liabilities, international ad­vocacy, facility ownership, intellectual proper...

794Socioeconomic and racial disparities associated with pandemic and seasonal influenza among children

seasonal influenza among children Maria Middleton, MPH; Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH; Mark Ramos; Kristen Feemster MD, MPH, MSHP; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Center for Biomedical Informatics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia...

Racial differences and racial disparities: the distinction matters.

T hose who practice medicine in the United States are unavoidably confronted by the fact that health status, disease burden, and life span vary by population groups – particularly the persistent reality that cardiovascular disease outcomes are poorer in African Americans than in European Americans (the majority reference group), Asian Americans (those from China and Japan having best outcomes, ...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Racial disparities in HIV

www.thelancet.com/hiv Vol 4 July 2017 e281 In The Lancet HIV, Steven Goodreau and colleagues report the results of network modelling studies to investigate the sources of disparities in prevalence of HIV infection between black and white men who have sex with men (MSM). The higher prevalence among black MSM is a well recognised public health problem, and evidence that the number of cases among ...