This review describes the emerging global debate on the role of human rights childbirth. It is also tailored to a UK perspective in view of the Montgomery v. Lanarkshire [2015] legal ruling and it implications to practice. We can never underestimate the power of humane care on health. The compassion and evidence based medicine agenda in healthcare is interconnected with human rights in healthca...

The authors argue that the American healthcare system has developed in a fashion that permits and may support ongoing, widespread inequities based on poverty, race, gender, and ethnicity. Institutional structures also contribute to this problem. Analysis is based on (1) discussions of a group of experts convened by the Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services at a c...

HCE 550 Topics in Bioethics (3 credits) The course is an analysis of some of the important topics in bioethics. Students will familiarize themselves with the ethical questions surrounding major topics in contemporary bioethics. The course will focus on one or more of the following topics: medical research with human subjects, the new genetic medicine, social justice and the delivery of healthca...

Benefits and Barriers to Disclosing Sexual Trauma: A Contextual Approach Sarah E. Ullman PhD a , Melissa Ming Foynes MS b & Sharon Shin Shin Tang PhD c a Department of Criminology, Law, & Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA b Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA c VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Version of ...

The Stritch School of Medicine specifically calls upon the Jesuit tradition of education, which emphasizes the full development of its students, rigorous concern for the quality of its academic programs, and promotion of a broad educational curriculum that encourages leadership in the service of others and advances social justice. Our graduates are encouraged to be leaders in bringing improved ...

Significant health inequalities exist between the Navajo tribe and the US population as a whole and are worsening over time. I argue that while these health issues are concerning, there are also larger systemic issues (i.e., the Navajo’s historic and contemporary marginalization, the removal of traditional medicine from formal healthcare settings, etc.) that continually reproduce these health i...

this paper discusses whether european institutions should devote so much attention and funding to cross-border healthcare or they should instead prioritise guaranteeing universal health coverage (uhc), inequalities and tackling the effects of austerity measures. the paper argues through providing the evidence in both areas of research, that the priority at european level from a public health an...

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