Teaching health law. Personal reflections on teaching health law in a school of public health.

Some reflections on teaching law and medicine in law school since the '60s.

Discharge Against Medical Advice in Teaching Hospitals: A Telephone Survey

Background: Discharge with personal consent is considered as one of the main problems in hospitalization condition since many patients leave the hospital prematurely against the doctor’s advice. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the discharge with personal satisfaction in selected teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The pr...

Public Health in the Age of HIV:

As part of and to align with these developments, institutions and organisations in South Africa are reflecting on HIV within a public health and health systems perspective and on research, teaching and practice in public health as a field. To that end, UWC’s School of Public Health has been convening consultations and reflections aimed at clarifying the strategic directions which would enable b...

Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”

Addressing the increasingly globalised determinants of many important problems affecting human health is a complex task requiring collective action. We suggest that part of the solution to addressing intractable global health issues indeed lies with the role of new legal instruments in the form of globally binding treaties, as described in the recent article of Nikogosian and Kickbusch. However...

Inter-disciplinary teaching strategies for mental health law.

The use of an inter-disciplinary teaching strategy in the context of mental health law is explored here as a means of balancing concerns for the patient's best interests and maximizing their autonomy. One law professor and one psychiatrist participated in joint teaching sessions in the Queen's University School of Medicine, and share their strategies for overcoming perceived conflicts between p...