BACKGROUND In rural China, patients have free choice of health facilities for outpatient services. Comparison studies exploring the attributes of different health facilities can help identify optimal primary care service models. Using a representative sample of Chinese provinces, this study aimed to compare patients' rating of three primary care service models used by rural residents (public cl...

Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. The traditional goals of intensive care are to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with critical illness, maintain organ function, and restore health. Despite technological advances, death in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains commonplace. Death rates vary widely within and among countries and are influenced by many factors.1 Comparat...

Jonathan Mann asserted that violations of dignity serve as underlying factors that negatively impact the health of individuals. He called for the public health community to develop an empirical understanding of ill health through the fundamental concept of dignity. This article explores definitions of dignity and presents a model to demonstrate how violations of dignity may cause chronic stress...

In this review of Leon Kass’s Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword’s Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a theory of dignity as a basis for bioethics research. I argue that dignity theories are worth exploring in more detail, but that research needs to consider both ‘‘antitheory’’ accounts of the language of bioethics...

Abstract Dignity is a very prominent concept in human rights instruments, particular constitutions. It also that has many critics, including those who argue it useless ethical debates. How useful or not dignity can be artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discussions the question of this chapter. Is conversation stopper, help explain even resolve some dilemmas related to AI? The three cases chapt...

Some people may argue that dignity is a western concept, and may not apply to Chinese populations. Zhai and Chan interviewed Chinese elderly persons, family members, and staff of long term care facilities in Beijing and Hong Kong respectively, on what the word ‘dignity’ means to them. All respondents thought that the concept of dignity was important. Respect for autonomy was important in preser...

BACKGROUND human dignity is discussed in almost all public debates on the care of the dying, as well as in international policies for health and social care of older people. Because nursing homes are gaining importance as places where residents live out their lives in modern western societies and since there is evidence that end-of-life care in nursing homes lacks quality, there is a growing di...

BACKGROUND Research in the end-of-life context has explored the sense of dignity experienced by patients with advanced disease, examining the factors associated with it. Whereas certain perspectives regard dignity as an intrinsic quality, independent of external factors, in the clinical setting it is generally equated with the person's sense of autonomy and control, and it appears to be related...