Increased emphasis on community-based care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS is recommended by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Patients prefer to be treated within their community, and primary care reduces the demand on scarce, costly, and already overloaded hospital facilities. Thus, there is an increasingly large role for primary care physicians to play in t...

Most scarcities that underpin health disparities within and among countries are not natural; rather, they result from policy choices and the operation of social institutions. Using examples from the United States of America: the Chicago heat wave and hurricane Katrina, this paper develops "denaturalizing scarcity" as a strategy for enquiry to inform public-health ethics in an interconnected wor...

In his article, Thomas Rissfeldt argues the compatibility of palliative care with euthanasia and assisted suicide. 1 By account, many working within field feel that physician-assisted suicide are incompatible care. Wrongly, according to author, since (1) aims euthanasia/assisted not different, (2) compatible fundamental role physician as healer, (3) do necessarily constitute patient abandonment...