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Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion
Empowerment is a prominent ideal in health promotion. However, the exact meaning of this ideal is often not made explicit. In this paper, we outline...
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Beyond Public Health and Private Choice: Breastfeeding, Embodiment and Public Health Ethics
The key objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of acknowledging breastfeeding as an embodied social practice within interventions...
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Relevance of Precision Medicine in Public Health Genomics and Global Health Genomics
Precision Medicine (PM) is anticipated to have significant impact on individual health, public health and global health. With advances in sequencing...
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Global health, planetary health, One Health: conceptual and ethical challenges and concerns
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically shown the level of interconnectedness of the human population, the direct relation between human health and...
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Prevention and Ethics
Covid-19 is not merely a national or regional threat but a global one. It requires coordinated action of the global community to mitigate the spread...
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Environmental Health (The Exposome)
The exposome concept was introduced by Christopher Wild, a molecular epidemiologist, in 2005. He defined it as the totality of life-course...
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Health
In the Anthropocene, as ecological disruptions intensify and economic growth becomes increasingly untenable, health and health systems must be...
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Social Inequality in Child Health and Development—Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vulnerable children, i.e., children growing up in families with low socioeconomic positions have a higher risk of poor health and developmental...
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Exploring Agape in the Organizational Prevention of Work-Related Moral Injury
Despite the commonality of moral injury (MI) across diverse work settings, it has received limited attention within business and management research,...
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Using Narratives to Improve Health Literacy – An Ethical and Public Health Perspective
Most people have little interaction with the health system and tend to be unfamiliar with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of even common...
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What Are Health Disparities?
Many racial and ethnicBig data minority groupsMinority groups have poor health outcomes. These health disparitiesHealth disparities are driven by the...
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Personal or Public Health?
Intuitively we feel that we ought to (attempt) to save the lives, or ameliorate the suffering, of identifiableIdentifiable individuals where we can...
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Health and Human Welfare: Issues and Challenges Faced and Defeated
Since independence, India has developed a successful public health infrastructure. Availability of such resources in adequate quantities is essential...
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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands
BackgroundSelf-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to...
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Prevention
Prevention is a traditional goal of medicine as borne out by Hippocratic writings pointing out the importance a healthy lifestyle has in preventing...
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How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research
Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support...
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Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account
The definitions and conceptualizations of health, and the management of healthcare have been challenged by the current global scenarios (e.g., new...
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Corruption in the Health Sector: Case Study of Kosovo
Comprehensive development, growth, and prosperity of all social ranks are among the fundamental problems of many countries. The health sector is of...
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Business Ethics and Health Care: A Stakeholder Perspective
This article examines the recent controversy in health care delivery about whether it should be conceptualized as a business. The current debate...
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Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greek authorities enforced a vaccination mandate for healthcare workers (HCWs). At the same time, multiple concerns...
