Ethics in Health Services and Policy [[electronic resource] ] : A Global Approach

• Autore: Harris Dean M
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Delivery of Health Care - ethics; Ethics, Medical; Medical care; Medical ethics; Public Policy; Morals; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Patient Care Management; Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Professional; Social Control Policies; Health Care; Psychology, Social; Health Services Administration; Social Control, Formal; Policy; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Humanities; Sociology; Psychiatry and Psychology; Social Sciences; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Delivery of Health Care; Ethics; Health Policy; Medicine; Health & Biological Sciences; Medical Ethics & Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Introduction; Acknowledgments; The Author; 1. Ethical Theories and Bioethics in a Global Perspective; Theories of Ethics; Are Theories of Ethics Global?; Can Theories of Ethics Encourage People to Do the Right Thing?; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Building and Operating a New Hospital in a Developing Country; 2. Autonomy and Informed Consent in GlobalPerspective; Ethical Principles and Practical Issues of Informed Consent; Does Informed Consent Really Matter to Patients?; Is Informed Consent a Universal Principle or a Cultural Value?; Summary; Key Terms ; Discussion QuestionsActivity: Informed Consent at a Rural Health Facility in a DevelopingCountry; 3. Withholding or Withdrawing Treatmentand Physician-Assisted Suicide; Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life; Assisting Patients in Committing Suicide; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Developing an Ethics Policy on Withholding or WithdrawingTreatment and PAS; 4. Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health; Ethics of Abortion in Different Times, Places, and Cultures; Current Ethical Issues in Abortion; Assisted Reproductive Technology and Stem Cell Research ; Emergency ContraceptionEthics of Imposing Conditions on Funding; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: The Ethics of Emergency Contraception in Gouanastan; 5. Ethical Issues of Female Genital Mutilation; The Facts About FGM; FGM as a Challenge to Ethical Relativism; Ethics of FGM for Adult Women; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Developing a Hospital Policy on FGM; 6. Ethical Issues of Research with Human Subjects; Background Information and the Belmont Report; Autonomy and Voluntary Informed Consent; Beneficence and Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Issues of Justice and Fairness for Human SubjectsSummary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: The Use of Prisoners as Subjects of Research; 7. The Right to Health Care and Ethical Obligationsto Provide Care; Is There an Ethical Right to Health Care?; Ethical Obligations of Health Care Professionals; Ethical Obligations of For-Profit Health Care Providers; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Developing a Policy on the Obligations of Health Care Employeesto Work During an Emergency; 8. Ethical Issues in Rationing and Allocationof Limited Resources ; Levels of Allocating ResourcesMethods of Rationing Health Resources; Comparative Effectiveness Research and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in a Country with Universal HealthCare Coverage; 9. Ethical Issues of Health Insurance and Health SystemReform; Ethical Issues in Financing Health Services and Designing InsuranceSystems; Fundamental Values of Health Systems; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Activity: Establishing a System of Health Coverage in a DevelopingCountry ; 10. Ethical Issues in the Movement of Patients AcrossNational Borders
• Sommario/riassunto: This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with h
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics in Health Services and Policy
• ISBN: 1-283-02570-1; 9786613025708; 0-470-94064-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459844703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jossey-Bass Public Health