An ethics analysis of the rationale for publicly funded plastic surgery
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Healthcare systems are increasingly struggling with resource constraints, given demographic changes, technological development, and citizen expectations.
Lars Sandman, Emma Hansson
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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021 Objective To analyse and describe general practitioners’ perceptions of the notion of a ‘personal responsibility for health’. Design Interview study, phenomenographic analysis. Setting Swedish primary health care.
Joar Björk +3 more
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The badness of death and priorities in health [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2016 The state of the world is one with scarce medical resources where longevity is not equally distributed. Given such facts, setting priorities in health entails making difficult yet unavoidable decisions about which lives to save. The business of saving lives works on the assumption that longevity is valuable and that an early death is worse than a late ...
Solberg, Carl T, Gamlund, Espen
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Women’s health priorities and interventions [PDF]
BMJ, 2015 Building on the unfinished agenda, Marleen Temmerman and colleagues elaborate actions needed to improve the health and wellbeing of women and girls around the ...
Temmerman, Marleen +4 more
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A sexual health prevention priority [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008 Wittet and Tsu are right to point to the link between cervical cancer deaths and achieving the MDGs and the inequity in the burden of cervical cancer between developed and developing countries. Any programme that reduces cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in low-income and lower middle-income countries is clearly to be welcomed.
Alison Hann, Stephen Peckham
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Priority setting in cardiovascular research in Iran using standard indigenous methods
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2022 income countries, multicriteria decision analysis Background: Determining cardiovascular disease (CVD) research priorities is essential given the high burden of these diseases, limited financial resources, and competing priorities.
Nizal Sarrafzadegan +23 more
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Priorities and preferences for care of people with multiple chronic conditions
Health Expectations, 2021 Background To guide the development of high‐quality care for people with multiple chronic conditions, partners of the European Joint Action CHRODIS developed the Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model.
Mieke Rijken +4 more
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‘The dangers attending these conditions are evident’: public health and the working environment of Lancashire textile communities, c.1870–1939 [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the position of the working environment within public health priorities and as a contributor to the health of a community. Using two Lancashire textile towns (Burnley and Blackburn) as case studies and drawing on a variety of ...
Greenlees, Janet
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Stakeholders' Participation in Planning and Priority Setting in the Context of a Decentralised Health Care system: the case of prevention of mother to child Transmission of HIV Programme in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and set priorities as well as allocate ...
A Blystad +40 more
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Top 10 public health challenges to track in 2023: Shifting focus beyond a global pandemic
Public Health Challenges, 2023 The year 2022 saw COVID‐19 as the primary public health concern, with vaccine rollout and mandates at the forefront. Other viral infectious diseases, such as Monkeypox and Ebola, emerged as public health concerns.
Don Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno III +26 more
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