Is man free to make choices for health?

Involvement of Patients in Health Technology Assessment: Further Perspectives for Informing Decision-Makers

Health technology assessment (HTA) is an evaluative process used to inform technology-related policymaking in healthcare. Interest in involving patients in the HTA process is increasing. Patients can provide additional perspectives to those of other groups that are concerned with health technology. Information on patients’ perspectives is preferably obtained through reviews of published studies...

Ethical Challenges of Restrictions on Citizens’ Health choices by the Government

In recent decades, the concepts of healthy lifestyle and healthcare choices have been the subject of focus by healthcare policymakers. Together with financial, mental, and ethical reasons for citizens to have a free hand as far as their healthcare, numerous arguments based on the social aspects of healthcare have also been made by proponents of the necessity to limit these options by government...

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Does the Ability to Make a New Business Need More Risky Choices during Decisions? Evidences for the Neurocognitive Basis of Entrepreneurship

بررسی سنجه‌های کرامت انسانی

The criteria for human dignity are among the most important topics associated with the concept. Some related questions are what makes man worthy of dignity, and what properties make him more dignified than other creatures? Although biological classifications of species should be considered in humanities, research on dignity must focus on differences that are fundamental and separate humans from...