Setting the agenda for urban bioethics

Bioethics for clinicians: 25. Teaching bioethics in the clinical setting.

Bioethics is now taught in every Canadian medical school. Canada needs a cadre of teachers who can help clinicians learn bioethics. Our purpose is to encourage clinician teachers to accept this important responsibility and to provide practical advice about teaching bioethics to clinicians as an integral part of good clinical medicine. We use 5 questions to focus the discussion: Why should I tea...

HIV/AIDS policy agenda setting in Iran

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

Setting the WHO agenda for mental health

– Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) provide a useful tool for measuring the burden of mental disorders and the outcome of interventions. According to this measurement, mental disorders are expected to represent 15% of the global burden of disease by 2020. – Other tools are needed to measure other key factors such as the impact of social and economic conditions on mental health, the biologi...

Setting the Agenda for Preventive Cardiology.

What Is Preventive Cardiology? To some, it is a general concept encompassing a range of interests so wide to include basic research, population studies, community medicine, and public policy work. To others, it is a philosophy that informs and defines an aspect of a more general clinical practice stance, be it general cardiology, endocrinology, or internal medicine. To us, practitioners of this...

The bioethics agenda and the Bush second term.