Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Sexual risk and health care seeking behaviour in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in north Queensland
Published 2014-10-28Background: Compared to non-Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI). We sought to identify the sexual risk and health care seeking ...Open AccessArticle -
Writing Social Determinants Into and Out of Cancer Control: An Assessment of Policy Practice’
Published 2009-01-01A large literature concurs that social determinants of health are demonstrable, important, and insufficiently attended to in policy and practice. A resulting priority for research should be to determine how the social ...Open AccessArticle -
Writing the risk of cancer: cancer risk in policy documents.
Published 2009-01-01In this paper we examine how cancer risk is written in cancer policy documents from the English speaking OECD nations. We offer an audit of the multiple ways in which cancer risk is conceptualized and presented in health ...Open AccessArticle -
Dignity and Narrative Medicine
Published 2010-01-01Critiques of the dehumanising aspects of contemporary medical practice have generated increasing interest in the ways in which health care can foster a holistic sense of wellbeing. We examine the relationship between two ...Open AccessArticle -
Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture
Published 2011-01-01In this paper we articulate a growing awareness within the field of the ways in which medical humanities could be deemed expressive of Western cultural values. The authors suggest that medical humanities is culturally ...Open AccessArticle