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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.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The field of public health has had no written code of ethics to guide professionals in addressing the wide variety of ethical dilemmas that arise in their practice.
August 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement prepared a statement of ethical principles for health-care workers that bridges disciplinary boundaries and provides a point of reference for all parties - doctors, nurses, other caregivers, managers and payers.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The American Geriatrics Society, New York, and the Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., a bioethics research institute, co-sponsored the Congress of Clinical Societies, a two-day conference at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 7-8, 1996, that addressed ethical issues raised by the advent of managed care.
March 1, 2008 | Program Result
The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication established the General Robert Wood Johnson Program in Ethical Leadership to identify and help correct the causes of ethical lapses increasingly present in American life.
August 1, 1999 | Program Result
Student PUGWASH USA is a nonprofit national student organization that promotes increased awareness of the social and ethical aspects of science and technology through publications and meetings.
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 ...
January 10, 2013 | Story
Read about the Gallup survey on honesty and ethics, what’s new on the RWJF Human Capital Blog, and more.