actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. this portrait is incomplete. it is also a field of power relations—a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

Yatırım bankaları, finansal araçları kullanarak sağladıkları kaynakları yatırıma dönüştürebilme yeteneğine sahiptirler. Bu özellikleri sayesinde, yatırım bankaları bulundukları ülke ekonomisinin önemli bir parçasını oluştururken aynı zamanda en sektörlerden birini de temsil ederler. Sermaye piyasalarında işlem gören bu bankalar, özel işletmelerin ve devletlerin uzun dönemli fon taleplerini karş...

Research aimed to foster the understanding of causes and consequences of mental disorders and to improve their outcome should be a priority in the agenda of clinicians, researchers and health policy makers. Published guidelines for research in Psychiatry have highlighted main requirements, which will be summarized and discussed in the presentation. Research in Psychiatry has to conform to ethic...

[Purpose] Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disease; individuals typically have no verbal skills or purposeful hand movements. In clinical settings, knowledge of their interests would be helpful for therapy. Therefore, we investigated the interests of Rett syndrome patients. [Subjects and Methods] In 2016, we sent a questionnaire regarding the interests of individuals with Rett syndr...

OBJECTIVE We studied the effects of health insurance, health care needs, and demographic and area characteristics on out-of-pocket health care spending for low and higher income insured populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the 2002 National Survey of America's Families to analyze out-of-pocket health spending. People were classified into 3 levels of expenses based on their out-of-pocket...

The primary goals of this project are to discover management processes which benefit a restored prairie and reduce the need for prescribed burning. Moreover, because of the interdependence of the plants and soil, there is a strong focus on the soil community as a driving force of the vegetation. Consequently, our objectives were to assess the effects of manipulation (burning, mowing) on: (1) th...

Background: In any society, values, collective and national interests have a special place. National legal systems, in the sense of public order in the nationalization of foreign investor property, support these high national values and interests against individual interests. Therefore, this research has been conducted with the aim of presenting the moral model of public order in the nationaliz...

The idea of paying donors in order to make more human bodily material available for therapy, assisted reproduction, and biomedical research is notoriously controversial. However, while national and international donation policies largely oppose financial incentives they do not treat all parts of the body equally: incentives are allowed in connection to the provision of some parts but not others...

Competing Interests and Disclosures: The author is a co-inventor on a patent application for MERS-CoV vaccines and monoclonal antibodies developed by the US National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center. The author is also the Principal Investigator of an upcoming first-inhuman Phase I clinical trial being conducted by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in collaboration with Gen...