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Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health Ethics
This chapter has four main points. First, I argue that the human rightsHuman rights approach to public health ethicsEthics, championed by Jonathan...
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Towards trust-based governance of health data research
Developments in medical big data analytics may bring societal benefits but are also challenging privacy and other ethical values. At the same time,...
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Ethical Issues in Psychiatric and Mental Health Care
Persons with mental health concerns are encountered in all areas of nursing practice. While this chapter specifically addresses ethical issues in...
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Ontological insecurity in the post-covid-19 fallout: using existentialism as a method to develop a psychosocial understanding to a mental health crisis
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic we are witnessing a significant rise in mental illness diagnosis and corresponding anti-depressant prescription...
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A quantitative survey measure of moral evaluations of patient substance misuse among health professionals in California, urban France, and urban China
BackgroundThe merits and drawbacks of moral relevance models of addiction have predominantly been discussed theoretically, without empirical evidence...
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Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is a voluntary initiative launched in 2000 to bring businesses and civil society together on the basis of 10 principles...
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Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was established in 2002 as an independent organization in the form of a partnership made up...
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Buddhist Economics: The Global View
This chapter describes how Buddhist economics can proactively contribute to the concept of conscious capitalism by importing Buddhist ethical...
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Structural coercion in the context of community engagement in global health research conducted in a low resource setting in Africa
BackgroundWhile community engagement is increasingly promoted in global health research to improve ethical research practice, it can sometimes coerce...
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Global Poverty and Kantian Hope
Development economists have suggested that the hopes of the poor are a relevant factor in overcoming poverty. I argue that Kant’s approach to hope...
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Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics
Moral or ethical questions are vital because they affect our daily lives: what is the best choice we can make, the best action to take in a given...
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Identifying a Human Rights Approach to Roma Health Vulnerabilities and Inequalities in Europe: From Concept to Action
Roma communities across Europe still remain a neglected population group by way of the social and economic disadvantage that largely characterizes...
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A Blessing or a Curse: An Exploration of Zimbabwe’s Plight in the Global Village
International communication has promoted interaction and integration among various people, companies and governments of different continents, a...
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Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum
This study examines the accountability of the self among sustainability and humanitarian advocates participating in the World Economic Forum. Drawing...
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Develo** a toolkit for engagement practice: sharing power with communities in priority-setting for global health research projects
BackgroundCommunities’ engagement in priority-setting is a key means for setting research topics and questions of relevance and benefit to them....
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Cultivating health: diabetes resilience through neo-traditional farming in Mopan Maya communities of Belize
My research explores Maya perspectives on neo-traditional farming as a source of metabolic health and resilience to the global epidemic of type-two...
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The Mental Health of Refugees during a Pandemic: Striving toward Social Justice through Social Determinants of Health and Human Rights
This paper is the second of two in a series. In our first paper, we presented a social justice framework emerging from an extensive literature review...
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A Novel Approach to Public Health Crises Using Narrative Ethics
This chapter examines several public health issues using the novels The Stand by Stephen King and The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. These two...
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Children Requiring Emergency Health Care
Children present to physician’s offices, urgent care centers or emergency departments for many reasons, not just with presumed severe and/or...