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Open AccessEthics of task shifting in the health workforce: exploring the role of community health workers in HIV service delivery in low- and middle-income countries
Task shifting is increasingly used to address human resource shortages impacting HIV service delivery in low- and middle-income countries. By shifting basic tasks from higher- to lower-trained cadres, such as ...
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Open Access“We have been forced to move away from home”: print news coverage of Canadians studying abroad at Caribbean offshore medical schools
Canadian international medical graduates are Canadian-citizens who have graduated from a medical school outside of Canada or the United States. A growing number of Canadians enroll in medical school abroad, in...
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Open AccessDevelo** an informational tool for ethical engagement in medical tourism
Medical tourism, the practice of persons intentionally travelling across international boundaries to access medical care, has drawn increasing attention from researchers, particularly in relation to potential ...
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Open Access“Location is surprisingly a lot more important than you think”: a critical thematic analysis of push and pull factor messaging used on Caribbean offshore medical school websites
Offshore medical schools are for-profit, private enterprises located in the Caribbean that provide undergraduate medical education to students who must leave the region for postgraduate training and also typic...
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Open AccessCanadian research ethics board members’ attitudes toward benefits from clinical trials
While ethicists have for many years called for human subject trial participants and, in some cases, local community members to benefit from participation in pharmaceutical and other intervention-based therapie...
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Open Access“It Was the Best Decision of My Life”: a thematic content analysis of former medical tourists’ patient testimonials
Medical tourism is international travel with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists travel for many reasons, including cost savings, limited domestic access to specific treatments, and inter...
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Migration of Health Personnel and Brain Drain
Within global bioethics, global inequities in terms of life expectancy, morbidity, and the distribution of health resources have been identified as areas of serious ethical concern. These inequities are caused...
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Open AccessPromoting social responsibility amongst health care users: medical tourists’ perspectives on an information sheet regarding ethical concerns in medical tourism
Medical tourists, persons that travel across international borders with the intention to access non-emergency medical care, may not be adequately informed of safety and ethical concerns related to the practice...
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Open Access“Do your homework…and then hope for the best”: the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians’ support of patients’ informed decision-making
Medical tourism—the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care—may limit patients’ regular physicians’ abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We a...
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Open AccessRisk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: A thematic content analysis of canadian broker websites
Medical tourism, thought of as patients seeking non-emergency medical care outside of their home countries, is a growing industry worldwide. Canadians are amongst those engaging in medical tourism, and many ar...
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Issues and Challenges in Research on the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Reflections from a Conference
The authors co-organized (Snyder and Crooks) and gave a keynote presentation at (Turner) a conference on ethical issues in medical tourism. Medical tourism involves travel across international borders with the...