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January 1, 2003 | Journal Article
This article proposes an ethical template for pharmacy benefits and a fair process for using it. The template delineates four levels of decisions about pharmacy coverage, connecting ethically acceptable types of rationales for limits with decisions ...
July 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Justice is central to the mission of public health, but what does social justice require for the public's health? The account of justice here stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and the sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin ...
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust sponsored an invitational forum on ethical challenges in biomedical research and practice and published a report on the forum.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
Fred Friendly Seminars, in association with Thirteen/WNET, produced a three-part series called Our Genes/Our Choices, which the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) premiered nationally in January 2003 to some 2.3 million viewers.
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Foundation for Medical Excellence, Lake Oswego, Ore., examined, through a national survey of physicians, the impact on clinical practice that physicians attribute to witnessing a medical oath or covenant.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2003, a California-based research group, the Institute for the Future, used two exploratory grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to assess health care decision-makers' knowledge about new discoveries in genetics and to develop two proposals for a major educational initiative to inform health care leaders about the new discoveries, their clinical applications and the legal and ethical issues surrounding them. In 2002, RWJF turned down the two proposals partly bec...
January 1, 2004 | Book
Significant debates about health policy are often highly moralistic and ideological and unrelated to the preponderance of evidence. They inevitably involve questions of personal versus collective responsibility, government versus self-help, individu ...
October 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Clinicians now can diagnose Alzheimer's disease before the onset of debilitating cognitive impairment
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Neighborhood context and chlorpyrifos exposure were found to be independently associated with neurodevelopment.
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
The National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health hosted a one-day Workshop on Ethics in Public Health Practice and Preparedness.