Articles: health.
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Public Health Eth Uk · Jul 2008
Improving Access to Essential Medicines: How Health Concerns can be Prioritised in the Global Governance System.
This paper discusses the politics of access to essential medicines and identifies 'space' in the current system where health concerns can be strengthened relative to trade. This issue is addressed from a global governance perspective focusing on the main actors who can have the greatest impact. ⋯ The collaboration has been so powerful due to the assistance of the media as well as the decision to compromise with pharmaceutical companies and their host countries. To improve access to essential medicines, six C's are needed: coalitions, civil society, citizenship, compromise, communication and collaboration.
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An elaborated research methodology elucidating the scientific quality of health-related quality of life questionnaires has been developed. With the availability of a methodology that can investigate important aspects of the validity and reliability of questionnaires, the central question is no longer whether questionnaire based studies are valid, but to what extent their validity in specific applications has been sufficiently researched. Newer statistical methods will facilitate a shift towards interactive, individualized questionnaires.
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BMC Int Health Hum Rights · Jan 2008
Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts.
The fields of human rights and public health ethics are each concerned with promoting health and elucidating norms for action. To date, however, little has been written about the contribution that these two justificatory frameworks can make together. This article explores how a combined approach may make a more comprehensive contribution to resolving normative health issues and to advancing a normative framework for global health action than either approach made alone. We explore this synergy by first providing overviews of public health ethics and of international human rights law relevant to health and, second, by articulating complementarities between human rights and public health ethics. ⋯ Actors within the fields of public health, ethics and human rights can gain analytic tools by embracing the untapped potential for collaboration inherent in such a combined approach.