Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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"Improving the legitimacy of medicines funding decisions: A critical literature review"
Published 2015-01-01Many healthcare systems globally provide publicly subsidised access to prescribed medicines. Decisions about which medicines to fund affect a range of stakeholders and it is not reasonable to expect that medicines funding ...Open AccessArticle -
The Ethics around Drug Labels and Generic Medicines.
Published 2015-01-01The labels of off-patent medicines can be obsolete and even misleading when compared to the contemporary, evidence-based use of the medicine. Apart from serious adverse drug reactions that can lead to rapid changes to the ...Open AccessArticle -
Doctors’ approaches to PSA testing and overdiagnosis in primary healthcare: a qualitative study.
Published 2015-01-01Objectives: (1) To explain general practitioners’ (GPs’) approaches to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and overdiagnosis; (2) to explain how GPs reason about their PSA testing routines and (3) to explain how these ...Open AccessArticle -
Don’t be surprised by Abbott’s comments about ‘lifestyle choices’
Published 2015-03-13Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s claim this week that people living in remote communities were making a “lifestyle choice” that taxpayers shouldn’t be obliged to fund was not just the result of an unguarded moment. Rather, the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Public Health Ethics and a Status for Pets as Person-Things: Revisiting the Place of Animals in Urbanized Societies.
Published 2013-01-01Within the field of medical ethics, discussions related to public health have mainly concentrated on issues that are closely tied to research and practice involving technologies and professional services, including ...Open AccessArticle