in “buying health: the costs of commercialization and an alternative philosophy”, larry r. churchill and shelley c. churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. in this commentary on their article, i draw a connection between churchill and churchill’s account of the commercialization of nutrition and michael pollan’s critique of “nutr...

Qatar is a Gulf peninsula country of approximately 1.7 million people, with a multicultural society of more than 80% non-citizen residents, mostly expatriate workers of Middle Eastern and Asian origin. Qatar ranks highly on the Human Development Index, with the highest health index in the Arab world (1). The first kidney transplant in Qatar was performed in 1986. Since then, lack of donors in Q...

pharmacy, from the earliest time has been closely related to health and well-being of the people and its own code of ethics. in recent decades there has been a shift in the pharmacist role from traditionally dispensing to patient oriented health care management. nowadays, the philosophy of pharmacy practice is that a pharmacist is an individual who provide his knowledge and skills in patient co...

The article compares various conceptualizations of what played an essential role in the European socio-cultural reality 18th — 20th centuries, phenomenon public life, which, since end Enlightenment, has filled words “crowd” and “mass people” with new meanings. text does not highlight separate paragraphs. However, it consists two approximately equal parts. In first part, author draws on chapter ...

Marketing and advertising: harmful to children’s health One of the biggest contributors to the explosive increase in childhood obesity, including such complications as type 2 diabetes, is aggressive marketing and advertising by the food industry, according to a group called Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children Coalition (SCEC). The group held its second annual Summit on the Commercialisatio...

Is medical commerce a recent phenomenon? Does it distort the patient– physician relationship? Are investor-owned firms the main source of medical commercialism?1 I contend that medicine has generally been commerce in the United States, that medical commerce is a problem when it creates or worsens physicians’ conflicts of interest, and that these conflicts thrive in nonprofit organizations as we...

A global ‘associational revolution’ appears to be underway in many parts of the world and the rise of private voluntary organizations is beginning to have significant impacts on many nations’ democratic governance (Salamon, 1993; Kim, 2003). The rise of third sector organizations (TSOs) or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the decline of nationstates are changing not only the way societ...

Due to the limited access to kidney transplantation (KTx) in developing countries, desperate patients have engaged in the purchase and sale of kidneys. In 2004, the World Health Assembly urged member states to protect the poor and vulnerable from being exploited through practices of illegal organ trafficking that had become widespread throughout the world. In 2008, the international transplant ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may affect public perception and acceptance of living kidney donation. This study aims to describe the range and depth of public opinion on financial reimbursement, compensation, and incentives for ...