The governance of research access to information in health records is changing in England and Wales. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has created new powers to mandate the disclosure of personal confidential dataa (PCD) from health care professionals to support indirect care purposes, including...
Health Care Technology S.Timmermans, inInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 1Definition According to the US Office of Technology Assessment,healthcare technologyconsists of ‘the drugs, devices, and medical and surgical procedures used in medical care, and the organization...
This article presents a history of efforts by the World Health Organization and its most important ally, the World Federation for Medical Education, to strengthen and standardize international medical education. This aspect of WHO activity has been large
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and social well-being). Many have criticized such a complete change. The most provocative denunciation that I have heard of the historic WHO definition of health was during a PhD viva, some years ago, when a colleague said that “complete physical, mental, and social well-being” could only...
This article examines the mediating role of ethical issues and healthcare on the relationship between the Metaverse and mental health. It also investigates the impact of the Metaverse on ethical issues and healthcare. It is based on quantitative methodol
Psychological distress refers to non-specific symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression, and it is more common in women. Our aim was to investigate factors contributing to psychological distress in the working population, with a special reference to gen
The present study aims to understand the experiences, challenges, psychological well-being and needs of clinical and non-clinical government healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Hyderabad-Karnataka (H-K) region. This qualitative
Yet as experiences at Stafford, Morecambe Bay and elsewhere demonstrate, hard data, valuable as they are, may not yield full insight into the range of vulnerabilities and fallibilities in organizations. One reason for this lies in the social practices that influence the production of such data....
Over the last years, public engagement has become a topic of scholarly and policy debate particularly in biomedicine, a field that increasingly centres around collecting, sharing and analysing personal data. However, the use of big data in biomedicine po