Second in the hierarchy isinterpersonal leverage. It is based on an emotional bond or even a certain degree of dependency that often develops between a service user and a mental healthcare professional or another care provider. The service user may feel pressured to act in a certain way to pr...
Participating clinics made progress towards standardizing assessment and management in some topics; some variation remained but this could usually be explained. Clinics had different histories and path dependencies, occupied a different place in their healthcare ecosystem and served a varied caseload includi...
Public health practitioners will be frustrated if they attempt to translate their analysis into meaningful action in a context where the relevant political, economic, and healthcare systems are out of sync with the implications of their research. An expansive and politically committed public health is...
Concerns over PPCP exposure in the environment are now much higher up the policy agenda, with pharmaceutical pollution now being recognized as an issue by organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization. The European Union has recently adopted a strategi...
One thing that did not survive the pandemic is the attitude towards care. People are generally left to fend for themselves, economically and health-wise, although this attitude does not extend towards the environment, which is monitored and cajoled into conforming to human wishes. Nevertheless, wi...
The term—rooted in comfort, togetherness, and well-being—is inherently soothing. During 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and Trump’s first presidential election in the United States, the Danish word landed on theshortlist for Oxford’s Word of the Year, which...
Health care reformThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other ...
10,11 Medicines as part of health care therefore differ from other consumer goods, as there is stipulated a right to have access to them for everyone who needs them. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights specifies ‘access to essential medicines.’12 High ...
Despite comparable living standards and a nearly universal healthcare provision, there are large cross-country differences in population health in the Euro
The traditional argument for the observed child labour decline is that labour laws have been the key instrument through which child labour has been reduced. Laws setting the minimum working age at 12 were successively introduced in Europe and the United States between 1830 and 1910 with the suppor...