Understanding and Responding to ‘Iatrogenesis’

Understanding and responding to adverse events.

An adverse outcome for a patient is difficult, sometimes traumatic, for all concerned. Such incidents pose considerable challenges to an organization, both in terms of the need to respond intelligently to their occurrence and in terms of the need to deal with their aftermath. The challenge is to find a way forward that provides the necessary support for the people involved while ensuring that t...

Understanding and responding to anti-choice women-centred strategies.

This paper discusses the rise and use of a "woman-centred" anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do not really choose abortion but are pressured into it by others and then experience a range of negative effects afte...

Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis

Interest in the problem of antimicrobial drug resistance was once limited to health care workers and academics. Today, the problem is widespread, and patients are acquiring drug-resistant infections for which there may be no active therapeutic agents. Antimicrobial drug–resistant infections, such as methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus, have spread beyond health care settings and now caus...

UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO BEHAVIOURAL CHALLENGES: An Investigative Approach

Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...