Edited by Jean-Pierre Unger, Claudio Schuftan and Alicia Stolkiner.
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1069
Volume 20 Supplement 2
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Edited by Jean-Pierre Unger, Claudio Schuftan and Alicia Stolkiner.
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1069
Revisiting professionalism, both as a medical ideal and educational topic, this paper asks whether, in the rise of artificial intelligence, healthcare commoditisation and environmental challenges, a rationale ...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1068
Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives:
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1073
Since some form of dual clinical/public health practice is desirable, this paper explains why their ethics should be combined to influence medical practice and explores a way to achieve that.
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1070
Professional knowledge aims at improving practice. It reduces uncertainty in decision-making, improves effectiveness in action and relevance in evaluation, stimulates reflexivity, and subjects practice to ethi...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1071
Since the 1980s, markets have turned increasingly to intangible goods – healthcare, education, the arts, and justice. Over 40 years, the authors investigated healthcare commoditisation to produce policy knowle...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1072
Ethical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical a...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2020 20(Suppl 2):1067
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