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Sandra Butler Khartoum, Sudan If you fail to meet these four demands within 48 hours, you will be detained and punished to the fullest extent of the law, read the letter the Humanitarian Aid Commission delivered to my office in Khartoum… In 2005, the North and South regions of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), ending the two-decade [...] As a health professional or health student you need to know a minimum of the health terminology and historical events as well as ongoing debates. For example you have to know the differences between reliability and validity, sensitivity and specificity, bias and confounding factors, also you must be able to explain the John Snow approach to [...] In this program, two human rights advocates discuss the ethics of access to care and protection from secret experiments. Dr. Jonathan Moreno, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and author of Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, is a commentator and columnist for ABCNews.com. He is also an [...] Last week in a Medical Care Class at the BU school of public health, we discussed about the health market, professor said that the health market is an imperfect market, because it doesn’t have the characteristics and assumptions adhered to a perfect market. A perfect market has some assumptions like rationality of the market actors, [...] Prof. Bicknell believes the public health for the next 50 years is “The art and science of deciding who lives a longer, less miserable and happier life”. It means public health mission is to increase lives of people (quantity) with less misery (quality). Avicenna an Iranian physician and philosopher (980-1037 C.E.), believed that the quality of life [...] Some authorities treat the sick as potential enemies in the pandemic preparations for example in Flu Pandemic. Experts call this approach as a misguided approach to pandemic preparation that relies on a law enforcement/national security approach, rather than a public health approach to the problem, and which exposes nations to unnecessary risk. Professor Annas as one of [...] Surprisingly Health and Human Rights as a unique field (one concept) is a young, but rapidly growing and dynamic field. When we think about public health, unconsciously we consider it as a human right, these two words had evolved parallel but it took a long time until finally this field was introduced as a unique concept. [...]
Call for Nominations The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Jonathan Mann and highlight the vital link between health and human rights. The award is bestowed annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial financial reward. The Global Health [...] |
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