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The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition
Published 2015-01-01
Overdiagnosis means different things to different people. S M Carter and colleagues argue that we should use a broad term such as too much medicine for advocacy and develop precise, case by case definitions of overdiagnosis ...
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The First Shared Online Curriculum Resources for Veterinary Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in Animal Welfare and Ethics in Australia and New Zealand
Published 2015-01-01
The need for undergraduate teaching of Animal Welfare and Ethics (AWE) in Australian and New Zealand veterinary courses reflects increasing community concerns and expectations about AWE; global pressures regarding food ...
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Implementing One Health approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions
Published 2015-12-01
Background: ‘One Health’ represents a call for health researchers and practitioners at the human, animal and environmental interfaces to work together to mitigate the risks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases ...
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Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research.
Published 2015-03-01
Deliberative methods are of increasing interest to public health researchers and policymakers. We systematically searched the peer-reviewed literature to identify public health and health policy research involving deliberative ...
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Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: an overview of key concepts
Published 2015-10-01
Biomedical innovations are unlikely to provide effective and ethical tuberculosis (TB) control measures without complementary social science research. However, a strong interest in interdisciplinary work is often undermined ...
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Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage
Published 2015-04-09
Caplan and colleagues (2015) present a strong argument for using alternative trial designs for experimental treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD). This argument is, of course, not new. There is a significant body of ...
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Habitus and Responsible Dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of 'dog-shaped' holes in people's lives.
Published 2015-04-01
Responsible dog ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability ...
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Citizens, Consumers and Animals: What Role do Experts Assign to Public Values in Establishing Animal Welfare Standards?
Published 2015-01-01
The public can influence animal welfare law and regulation. However what constitutes ‘the public’ is not a straightforward matter. A variety of different publics have an interest in animal use and this has implications for ...
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Policies on pets for healthy cities: A conceptual framework.
Published 2015-01-01
Drawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and ...
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The political and ethical challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
Published 2015-01-01
This article critically examines current responses to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and argues that bioethics needs to be willing to engage in a more radical critique of the problem than is currently offered. In ...
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