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BACKGROUND The global interest in developing therapies for Ebola infection management and its prevention is laudable. However the plan to conduct an emergency immunization program specifically for healthcare workers using experimental vaccines raises some ethical concerns. This paper shares perspectives on these concerns and suggests how some of them may best be addressed. DISCUSSION The recr...

Abstract This paper aims to square our considered judgements about the moral significance of healthcare with various empirical and conceptual challenges its role in a theory justice. I do so by defending reference central but neglected dimension – healthcare’s expressive function. Over above influence on health outcomes other metrics justice (such as opportunity or welfare), despite relatively ...

Here is a health policy riddle: despite the fact that we are not always clear as to what we are trying to achieve, even on the most basic level, we must make policy anyway. Odder still: this is as we might expect it to be, and perhaps even as it should be. After all, part of what makes health policy important is precisely the fact that it raises critical questions about our most basic human val...

AIM To test a model linking procedural justice, supervisor autonomy support, need satisfaction, organizational support, work satisfaction, organizational identification and job performance. BACKGROUND Research in industrial and organizational psychology has shown that procedural justice and supervisor autonomy support lead to positive outcomes. However, very little research related to this su...