Climate change has substantial impacts on public health and safety, disease risks and the provision of health care, with the poor being particularly disadvantaged. Management of the associated health risks and changing health service requirements requires adequate responses at local levels. Health-care providers are central to these responses. While climate change raises ethical questions about...

background: dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of health technology assessment (hta) definitions. objectives: present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in hta reports and the effects it had on hta-related decision making around the world.   methods: by considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes and subject...

Abstract From the perspective of climate ethics, this article proposes to analyse Payments for Environmental Services (PES) at local (case study in São Paulo) and national (National Plan Services) dimensions. The practices observed these Brazilian political arenas were assessed via content analysis; guiding principles action, we dynamics public policymaking actors light categories such as plann...