Unwelcoming behaviours and judgemental attitudes have long been recognised as a barrier to young people's access to reproductive health services. Over the last decade youth friendly reproductive health services have been promoted and implemented world-wide. However, long term evidence of the impact of these programmes is lacking. We report the results of a large mystery client evaluation of ado...

BACKGROUND Natural disasters, armed conflict, migration, and epidemics today occur more frequently, causing more death, displacement of people and economic loss. Their burden on health systems and healthcare workers (HCWs) is getting heavier accordingly. The ethical problems that arise in disaster settings may be different than the ones in daily practice, and can cause preventable harm or the v...

OBJECTIVES Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a common cause of hearing loss and possible developmental delay in children, and there are a range of 'preference sensitive' treatment options. We aimed to evaluate the attitudes and beliefs of parents of affected children to treatment options including watchful-waiting, hearing aids, grommets, and, oral steroids with the intention of developing ou...

OBJECTIVES To study some ethical problems created by accession of a previously nomadic and traditional society to modern invasive medicine, by assessment of physicians' attitudes towards sharing information and decision-making with patients in the setting of a serious illness. DESIGN Self-completion questionnaire administered in 1993. SETTING Riyadh, Jeddah, and Buraidah, three of the large...

In modern socio-humanitarian science, there is a certain lack of research on the moral priorities young Russian citizens as regulators their life in state and society. The study presented article was aimed at identifying political values, ethical representations attitudes people that guide them assessing sphere politics relationships with other actors. theo-retical methodological basis politica...

Informed consent is increasingly heralded as an ethical panacea, a tool to counter autocratic and paternalistic medical practices. Debate about the implementation of informed consent is constricted and polarised, centring on the right of individuals to be fully informed and to freely choose versus an autocratic, paternalistic practice that negates individual choice. A bioethical framework, base...

The concept of revealed preferences surfaces quite often in methodological debates over behavioral economics. There seems to be a close linkage between economists’ attitudes to the revealed preference principle and the opinions that they hold regarding paternalistic policies, or their relative evaluation of decision models. This chapter is an attempt to clarify several aspects of this linkage. ...

OBJECTIVES Changes in legal standing and new guidelines for consent have generated changes in medical culture that doctors must adhere to. This study aims to highlight the differences in the way the surgeons in the two cultures view the informed consent for surgery processes. METHODS The attitudes towards informed consent of a group of surgeons working in Saudi Arabia (KSA) were compared with...

Background: In paternalistic models, healthcare providers’ responsibility is to decide what is best for patients. The main concern is that such models fail to respect patient autonomy and do not promote patient responsibility. Aim: To evaluate mental healthcare team members’ perceptions of their own role in encouraging elderly persons to participate in shared decision-making after implementatio...