OBJECTIVE To discuss international aspects as they relate to the convergence of disciplines in health informatics. METHOD A group of international experts was invited at a symposium to present and discuss their perspectives on this topic. These have been collated in a single manuscript. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Significant challenges, as well as opportunities, appear when cumulating the intr...

The Centre for Health Program Evaluation (CHPE) is a research and teaching organisation established in 1990 to: • undertake academic and applied research into health programs, health systems and current policy issues; • develop appropriate evaluation methodologies; and • promote the teaching of health economics and health program evaluation, in order to increase the supply of trained specialist...

medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. this tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.

Ethics can be understood as a code of behaviour or as the study of codes of behaviour. While the mission of the International Association of Bioethics is a scholarly examination of moral issues in health care and the biological sciences, many people in the field believe that it is also their task to create new and better codes of practice. Both ways of doing bioethics are sound, but it is impor...

The critical aspects of biosafety, biosecurity, and biocontainment have been in the spotlight in recent years. There have also been increased international efforts to improve awareness of modern practices and concerns with regard to the safe pursuit of life sciences research, and to optimize current oversight frameworks, thereby resulting in decreased risk of terrorist/malevolent acquisition of...

Provides a brief overview of the history and current status of behavioral immunology research, as well as speculation on likely future directions, and suggests that the field may have broad implications for basic biological sciences and medicine. In addition, the field has clear relevance for health psychology; its relevance to actual health outcomes, however, is not yet known.

In this work the three disciplines of condition based maintenance (CBM), structural health monitoring (SHM) and prognostics and health management (PHM) are described. Then the characteristics of the disciplines are compared, which leads to a clear insight in the commonalities, but also in the difference in objectives and scope of the three disciplines. The disciplines are then demonstrated usin...