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“Data makes the story come to life:” understanding the ethical and legal implications of Big Data research involving ethnic minority healthcare workers in the United Kingdom—a qualitative study
The aim of UK-REACH (“The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers”) is to understand if, how, and...
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Clinical ethical practice and associated factors in healthcare facilities in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundClinical ethical practice (CEP) is required for healthcare workers (HCWs) to improve health-care delivery. However, there are gaps between...
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Place and the Structuring of Cross-Sector Partnerships: The Moral and Material Conflicts Over Healthcare and Homelessness
Local places, such as communities, cities, and towns, host many cross-cross sector partnerships, many geared primarily toward alleviating local...
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Access to Healthcare
The human right to health as outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to the highest attainable...
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The effect of deliberative process on the self-sacrificial decisions of utilitarian healthcare students
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted prosocial behavior as a professional healthcare core competency. Although medical students are...
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Defining ethical challenge(s) in healthcare research: a rapid review
BackgroundDespite its ubiquity in academic research, the phrase ‘ethical challenge(s)’ appears to lack an agreed definition. A lack of a definition...
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Wearables, the Marketplace and Efficiency in Healthcare: How Will I Know That You’re Thinking of Me?
Technology corporations and the emerging digital health market are exerting increasing influence over the public healthcare agendas forming around...
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Sustainability Based Medical Waste Logistics in Healthcare Enterprises: A University Hospital Application
Reverse logistics can be defined as the processes of correct collection, sorting, classification, and processing of products that are at the end of...
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Medical Brain Drain and Healthcare Delivery in Africa: Beyond Restrictive Migration Policies
The health of a particular population cannot be maintained or enhanced without the active participation of health care workers. This is because...
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An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics
The shape and function of ethical imperatives may vary if the context is an interaction between strangers, or those who are well acquainted. This...
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Utilitarian Principlism as a Framework for Crisis Healthcare Ethics
This paper introduces the model of Utilitarian Principlism as a framework for crisis healthcare ethics. In modern Western medicine, during non-crisis...
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Education and Competency Rich in Genomics and Ethics Is a Necessity for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of PM
Advances in genomics are anticipated to contribute to the development of more effective, personalized approaches to the prevention and treatment of...
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An Ethical Framework for the Design, Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Drones Used in Public Healthcare
The use of drones in public healthcare is suggested as a means to improve efficiency under constrained resources and personnel. This paper begins by...
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Healthcare in Extreme and Austere Environments: Responding to the Ethical Challenges
Clinicians may increasingly find themselves practicing, by choice or necessity, in resource-poor or extreme environments. This often requires...
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Dealing with sexual boundary violation in mental healthcare institutions by government policies: the case of Flanders, Belgium
BackgroundTo prevent sexual boundary violations (SBV) in mental health care institutions overall governments require these institutions to report SBV...
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COVID-19 and its Challenges for the Healthcare System in Pakistan
This article aims to highlight the healthcare issues raised by COVID-19 in Pakistan’s scenario. Initially, Pakistan lacked “standard operating...
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Sha** Ethical Guidelines for an Influenza Pandemic
This chapter describes the process of sha** ethical guidelines for an influenza pandemicInfluenza pandemic by the North Carolina Institute of...
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Relationships
In this chapter, I analyze the impact of MAI on relationships as well as roles within healthcare. I identify three crucial relationships, the...
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Postcolonial theory and Canada’s health care professions: bridging the gap
In recent years there have been several calls in professional and academic journals for healthcare personnel in Canada to raise the profile of...
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Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultants: A Need for Liability Protection?
Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) has grown significantly in the last decade, and efforts are being made to professionalize the practice. The...