A progressive erosion of the democratic space appears as one of the emerging challenges in global health today. Such delimitation of the political interplay has a particularly evident impact on the unique public interest function of the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper aims to identify some obstacles for a truly democratic functioning of the UN specialized agency for health. The deve...

The current paper studies the relationship between organizational spirituality and organizational health in the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance consisting of 168 employees. Data were gathered using two questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the academic and organizational experts, and the reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha. The collected da...

Introduction: Development of Complementary Health Insurance (CHI) benefit packages has always been one of the main challenges of Health Insurance Organizations in Iran. Records related to developing a health insurance package in Iran show that there is no specific criterion for developing such packages.  This study aimed at developing criteria for providing CHI benefit packages...

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The outgoing Director-General of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has successfully returned health issues to the international arena. The new Director-General will have to cope with reduced control over funding, debate over WHO's mandate, and the relationships between WHO and other organisations. Despite the broad role described in WHO's constitution, many groups see WHO's ...

The proposed plan consists of three parts: (1) a programme for the promotion of community water fluoridation and other approved methods for the prevention of dental caries; (2) a plan for coordinated study and research into the etiology and prevention of dental caries and related problems; and (3) a plan for an information gathering and dissemination system which is expected to link the prevent...

In commenting on these experiments one should point out that the artificial respiration experiments wefe carried out with a technic which surely resulted in alkalosis due to actual hyperventilation. This impression is confirmed in the authors' footnote which states that glass electrode determinations in subsequent experiments indicated that the pH of the brain tissue was shifted toward the alka...

Professor Lawrence Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He serves on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on R...