... the WHO's direct investigation of a wide range of global health problems, including pandemic influenza, in any member state—were strengthened and brought into force in May 2007. Even as ... offices, the WHO remains preeminent in matters relating to the cross-border spread of infectious and other health threats. In the aftermath of the SARS epidemic of 2003, the International Health ... funding institutions focused on global health. AIDS, first described in 1981, precipitated a change. In the United States, the advent of this newly described infectious killer marked the culmination...
... cycle." International financial institutions, including the World Bank and the IMF, have counseled limited investments and the capping of social expenditures in income countries and for 11.8% in ... entitled Investing in Health. These efforts represented a major advance in our understanding of health status in developing countries. Investing in Health has been especially influential: it familiarized ... The latter report reflects growth in the available data on health in the poorest countries Chapter 002. GlobalIssuesinMedicine (Part 3) The Economics of Global Health Political and economic...
... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatmentimplies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the bestpossible ... this would involve creating, testing and then discarding pre-embryos.31OverviewEthical issues in maternal–fetal medicine Edited byDonna L. DickensonJohn Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, ... donor insemination are outlined.Elina Hemminki (Chapter 12), a Finnish epidemiologist and health tech-nology assessment expert, approaches antenatal screening from an evidence-based medicine...
... autonomy. Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘socialalienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such aculture.All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global bioethical ... From the point of view of55Multicultural issuesin maternal–fetal medicine Cook, R. (1995). International human rights and women’s reproductive health. In Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International ... Perspective.Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Wolf, S. (1999). Erasing diVerence: race, ethnicity and gender in bioethics. In Embody-ing Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances, ed. A. Donchin and L.M....
... definitions include the following, more or less in order of in- creasing complexity:“[Globalization is] the intensification of worldwide social rela-tions in such a way that local happenings ... be-tween income inequality and economic growth, apparently resolving this long-Foreword viiinsufficiency of domestic savings, rather than the excess ofinvestment. In hindsight, the investment ... causing, increased income inequal-ities. Typically, average rates of income growth have, in the aggre-gate, been similar for the rich, poor, and the general population, re-sulting in widened income...
... IOM (Institute of Medicine) . 2010. Policy issuesin the development of personalized medicinein oncology: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.PERSONALIZED CANCER MEDICINE ... Personalized Medicinein Oncology,” in Washington, DC, on June 8 and 9, 2009. At this workshop experts gave presentations and commentary on the following areas:IntroductionPERSONALIZED CANCER MEDICINE ... to include information about the lack of activity of anti-EGFR antibodies in the setting of KRAS mutations in the labels (i.e., while the indication remains broad, the label states that in...
... IOM (Institute of Medicine) . 2010. Policy issuesin the development of personalized medicinein oncology: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.PERSONALIZED CANCER MEDICINE ... clinical utility, Dr. Schilsky explained. 36 PERSONALIZED MEDICINEIN ONCOLOGYon biomarkers called for defining the translation pathway for biomarkers more clearly (i.e., determining what information ... recurrence (Oncotype DX, MammaPrint).20 PERSONALIZED MEDICINEIN ONCOLOGYinaccuracies in how the test is performed in the laboratory. Emblematic of these issues are tests for HER2 amplification....
... from what it was in 1997.Foreword viiinsufficiency of domestic savings, rather than the excess ofinvestment. In hindsight, the investment boom and its excesses in the late 1990s in fact led to ... savings rates and investment rateswithin countries should increase (because investment rates will beless dependent on savings rates than has been true in the past).Typically, measurement of globalization ... sharplydeclined, painfully depressing Asian living standards and GDPs. Cor-respondingly, exports to Asia from the United States, Europe, andJapan have also declined, and Japan’s new investments in...
... thatwould support a presumption in favor of continuing the development of germlinegenetic engineering. That is, we have argued that germline genetic engineering isnot intrinsically morally objectionable. ... best interests of the patient for whom they are caring. If all of324 ETHICAL ISSUESIN MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND GENE THERAPYEmbryo DestructionA fourth argument against germline genetic engineering ... M. Ethical issuesin manipulating the human germ line. J Med Philos 16(Dec.):621–640,1991.Lippmann A. Prenatal genetic testing and screening: Constructing needs and reinforcinginequities....
... this article as: Tonini et al.: Work-related stress and bullying:gender differences and forensic medicineissuesin the diagnosticprocedure. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 ... “culture of litigation” (i.e. reappraising a co nflicttoasimpledifferenceofopinion)shouldbecreated;individual prevention should include a personal training in dealing with conflicts by means verbal ... ofInstitutions and the international scientif ic community.This study describes gender differences in the victims ofbullying and work-related stress examined in the Occu-pational Medicine...