Drug Safety - A Shared Responsibility

Improving drug safety: a joint responsibility.

Over the past decades, health care delivery has become more complex, and the traditional roles and relationships that structure this process have altered to allow new decision makers to enter the arena. Responsibility for drug safety, previously perceived by the public as belonging to regulatory bodies and physicians, has, in their eyes, now extended to the manufacturer. Increasingly, benefits ...

I. Shared responsibility in international drug control

1. Common and shared responsibility is a principle of international law and is applied in many fields of cooperation. It is thus not specific to drug control. Whereas international treaties establish a set of rules creating individual obligations for States parties, the principle of common and shared responsibility goes much further. It provides the framework for a cooperative partnership among...

Prepregnancy Care: A Shared Responsibility

The effective management of pregnancies complicated by diabetes is a shared responsibility—an equal partnership between health care professionals and a responsible woman. Over the last 30 years, major advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and care of diabetes has led to the hope that pregnancy outcomes for women with diabetes would be similar to the outcomes for women without dia...

Communication about vaccination: A shared responsibility

Vaccine hesitancy is an important issue to be addressed, due to the risk of decrease of vaccination coverage and consequent control of preventable diseases. While it is not considered a specific determinant, poor or inadequate communication can contribute to vaccine hesitancy and negatively influence vaccination uptake. As a contribution to the ongoing discussion regarding this theme and in the...

Effective mine risk education – a shared responsibility