Abstract Providing healthcare services frequently involves cognitively demanding tasks, including diagnoses and analyses as well complex decisions about treatments therapy. From a global perspective, ethically significant inequalities exist between regions where the expert knowledge required for these tasks is scarce or abundant. One possible strategy to diminish such increase opportunities in ...

establishing justice in healthcare services is currently a major challenge for public healthcare systems, especially in developing countries. inadequate distribution of resources and facilities is among the root causes of unfair access to healthcare. using ranking mechanisms, healthcare managers are able to compare different areas in terms of the services they receive, which will help achieve b...

the paper by gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and national health service (nhs) manager in the run up to the general election, when the nhs is at the hustings. they have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

OVERVIEW Since 1999, the federal and other governments in Canada have repeatedly emphasized the value to healthcare of electronic health records. In 2004, a substantial UK investigation questioned the evidence of public value of largescale, government initiatives in healthcare information technology, and of electronic health records in particular. Citing an authoritative source, which holds tha...

The paper by Gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and National Health Service (NHS) manager in the run up to the general election, when the NHS is at the hustings. They have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

Background: Substance use during pregnancy and motherhood is both a public health and criminal justice concern. Negative health consequences associated with substance use impact both the mother and the developing fetus, and there are ongoing attempts to criminalize substance use during pregnancy that put pregnant substanceusing women at risk of detection, arrest, and punishment. This study expl...

In December 2015, the UK government announced that planned changes to the commissioning of healthcare for people held in police custody in England andWales would not proceed. These changes had been well considered (having been in planning since a key report by Lord Bradley in 2009), set out formally, and described as one route to securing excellence. The government announcement, however, means ...