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...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...

What ethical considerations are made in decisions on distribution of scarce health care resources? Are the distributional decisions consciously based on explicit ethical principles, and if so, what principles? Both theoretical and political arguments on distribution of scarce medical resources frequently make simultaneous considerations of costs, probability of positive effects of medical treat...

Background: Growth and development in each organization, accomplished with institutionalizing a culture of organizational change and acceptance this by staff. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the role of personal values and ethical behavior with a commitment to organizational change. Method: The study method was descriptive- correlation. The statistical...

conditions and quality of ethical decision making by entrepreneurs is an important concern in academic and public area in iran. different factors such as personal, environmental and nature of business are causing the ethical decision making by entrepreneurs, but the concern have to great attention in iranian academic institutions. thus, research goal is try to identify environmental factors inf...

Purpose– Scholars have adopted a multiple ethical paradigms approach in an attempt to better understand the bases upon which everyday ethical dilemmas are resolved by educational leaders. The aim of this study is to examine the ethical considerations in ethical judgments of aspiring principals. Design/methodology/approach– To examine the ethical considerations involved in school leadership deci...

The paper provides description of the system of ethical review for biomedical research in Belarus, with special emphasis on its historical background, legal and regulatory framework, structure and functioning. It concludes that the situation with research ethics in Belarus corresponds to the tendency of bureaucratic approach to establishment of systems of ethical review for biomedical research,...