Public Health and Health System Reforms in Pakistan; An Ethical Perspective

PUBLIC HEALTH Reforms of Health Care System in Romania

Aim. To describe health care reforms and analyze the transition of the health care system in Romania in the 19892001 period. Method. We analyzed policy documents, political intentions and objectives of health care reform, described new legislation, and presented changes in financial resources of the health care system. Results. The reforms of the health care system in Romania have been realized...

Nudging in Public Health – An Ethical Framework

Ethical issues in predictive genetic testing: a public health perspective.

As a result of the increase in genetic testing and the fear of discrimination by insurance companies, employers, and society as a result of genetic testing, the disciplines of ethics, public health, and genetics have converged. Whether relatives of someone with a positive predictive genetic test should be notified of the results and risks is a matter urgently in need of debate. Such a debate mu...

Ethical analysis in public health.

Public-health regularly encounters serious ethical dilemmas, such as rationing scarce resources, influencing individuals to change their behaviour, and limiting freedom to diminish disease transmission. Yet unlike medical ethics, there is no agreed-upon framework for analysing these difficulties. We offer such a framework. It distinguishes three philosophical views, often invoked in public-heal...

Ethical dilemmas in public health.

Correspondence Ethical dilemmas in public health SIR Public health officials, like physicians, should observe wherever possible the Hippocractic maxim-'Do no harm'. Because most public health measures are preventive, they would appear less likely to harm than the physician's diagnostic and curative interventions. But the history of three twentieth-century, public-health campaigns shows that pre...