The American Epidemiological Society was, at the start, a small, but fervent organization. The founding fathers who controlled it played an earnest and meaningful role in the early life of this organization which could not help but contribute to its success. In order to give some idea of the personalities involved, brief biographical sketches of a few of the charter members are given. Those 26 ...

BACKGROUND Enhancing accountability in health systems is increasingly emphasised as crucial for improving the nature and quality of health service delivery worldwide and particularly in developing countries. Accountability mechanisms include, among others, health facilities committees, suggestion boxes, facility and patient charters. However, there is a dearth of information regarding the natur...

INTRODUCTION To supply quality services and healthcare, it is evident that medical ethics and patients' rights, while providing medical and healthcare services need to be observed. This study was conducted to evaluate observance of the Patients' Rights Charter among medical staff of educational hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This cross-sectional study ...

SUMMARY The incorporation of socio-economic rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights should be considered a vital move towards transformation conditions people continent. However, envisaged depends largely how these are interpreted. It is task supervisory organs to develop scope content their related obligations through interpretation. To achieve this interpretative objective,...

according to the article 4(1) of the charter of the united nations four conditions (stateness, peace-loving, acceptance of the obligations in the charters obligation) should be maintained for the admission of the new members. despite the express enunciation of these conditions and the confirmation of those conditions by the international court of justice (icj) in his advisory opinion on “the co...