3 results match your criteria: "Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute[Affiliation]"
An ethics framework for public health and avian influenza pandemic preparedness.
Yale J Biol Med
October 2005
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
The physician's role in discussing organ donation with families.
Crit Care Med
May 2003
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Federal Conditions of Participation from the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) introduced in 1998 require that all families be presented the option of organ and tissue donation when death is imminent. The perception that physicians were being excluded from participating in this process led to a resolution at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in December 1999, calling on the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs to review the Conditions of Participation "to ensure that there is no prohibition of physician involvement in the organ donation process..
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn ethics framework for public health.
Am J Public Health
November 2001
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute, Baltimore, Md, USA.
More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and whether its activities infringe on individual liberties in ethically troublesome ways. In this article a framework for ethics analysis of public health programs is proposed.
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