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Can Rights Make Any Difference for Access to Health? Insights from a Scoping Review on Constitutional Rights for the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All

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By Luciano Bottini Filho, Camila Gianella Malca, and Alicia Ely Yamin The intersection of health financing and the right to health is a common concern in public health advocacy. However, it is challenging to isolate the mechanisms that connect individuals’ rights with increased public investment.

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

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However, having a right to health may be insufficient, on its own, to enforce adequate regulations and ethical principles to develop a health system which respects patient autonomy and their individual values and preferences.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

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Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues.

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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

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Two people may experience identical levels of pain, but one may indicate that it is severe while the other indicates it is mild because she tends to avoid complaining or does not want to disappoint the doctor by relating that treatment is unsuccessful. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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Representation, in so many modes, plays a huge role in how we get sorted and understood — how we are read by therapists, by doctors, by researchers, by gamers, and by the world more generally. These representations shape our lives.

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What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care

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is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The post What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care appeared first on Bill of Health. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

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Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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