Catholic social teaching addresses social, economic, political, and cultural issues. It exhibits both theoretical and practical aspects. Firstly, it formulates moral principles for social and economic life. Secondly, it elaborates on their practical application on ruling economic relationships and within a specified time. It means that Catholic social teaching has a moral character of teaching....

he health care industry is enduring tumultuous upheaval as hospitals, insurers, physician practices and other industry participants reconfigure themselves to thrive in the 21st century. At the same time, health care systems face pressing near-term challenges: deteriorating payer mix, hospital admission declines, reimbursement pressures and the need for massively expensive technology investments...

Leaders of today's Catholic ministries are entrusted with an organizational responsibility to promote, sustain and remain true to Christ's healing ministry and the Catholic tradi- tion of caring for and nurturing people in need. Mission integration is a dynamic pro- cess that sets the context for the ministry of service, embedding mission into organizational practices, policies, structures and ...

Triple Therapy, Sequential Therapy, and Concomitant Therapy for Helicobacter pylori Infection in Korea: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial Byung-Wook Kim, Joon Sung Kim, Hyung Gil Kim, Byoung Wook Bang, Su Jin Hong, Jae Pil Han, Chang Whan Kim The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon St. Mary`s Hospital, Korea, Inha Unversity, Korea, SoonChunHyang University, Korea, The Catholic Univer...

The moderating effects of gender roles on service emotional contagion Miao-Que Lin a; Li-Shia Huang b; Yi-Fang Chiang c a Department of International Trade and Finance, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China b Department of Business Administration, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China c Graduate Institute of I...

J. H. Chen, T. K. Fang,* C. C. Chu, T. S. Yih, and T. N. Chang Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan 242, Republic of China Department of Physics, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan 242, Republic of China Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32054, Republic of China Department of Physics and Astro...

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH TRADITIONALLY ESTABLISHES MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION: A career, or vocation based on the professing of an oath regarding personal and public behavior. For Catholic physicians, the commitments of the Oath of Hippocrates take on new meaning when seen in light of the promises made at Baptism and renewed every Easter. This paper, originally an address to medical students, conside...

In this period of rapid transition, Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), like many big Catholic health care systems, is partnering with both tax-exempt and for-profit organizations, creating a network of nontraditional alliances and forming national subsidiaries in areas such as research, insurance, telemedicine, home health, information technology and physician practice ma...

N 17 OCTOBER 2007 A CATHOLIC SCHOOL board in northern Ontario — the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (H-SCDSB) — voted 5 to 4 to disallow within their schools the human papillomavirus vaccination programs for grade 8 girls that were being led by local public health units. As this was the only school board in On-tario to disallow the program (other school boards had close votes), th...