spiritual care, neglected aspect of health

Spiritual Care Education of Health Care Professionals

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-prof...

SPIRITUAL CARE OF END OF LIFE PATIENTS IN IRAN: A NEGLECTED NURSING PRACTICE

 Spirituality as one of the human being aspects, is associated with all domains of health and disease as well as the source of power and improvement in patients (1). Although, all of patients have spiritual needs, but end of life patients that encounter with unassertiveness, spiritual needs are very important (2). Nurses have responsibility to carry out spiritual care ethically and professional...

Nursing's mission: spiritual dimensions of health care.

Benefit--a neglected aspect of health research ethics.

In research ethics, provision of potential benefits to study participants is linked to the principles of beneficence and distributive justice. However, in most research ethical codes the notion of benefit is only superficially elaborated which is extended in vague and general benefit assessments in research proposals and in Research Ethical Committee's (REC) recommendations. The issue gains add...

Mental health care in aboriginals is neglected.

Framing the tax and health nexus: a neglected aspect of public health concern.

Previous studies have described various associations between tax policy and health. Here we propose a unifying conceptual framework of 'Five R's' to stimulate awareness about the importance of tax to health improvement. First, tax can improve representation and democratic accountability, and help make governments more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Second, tax can create a revenue str...