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From: Selleck, Kaylene
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To: Selleck, Kaylene
Subject: Email alert: August issue of the WHO Bulletin



Dear reader,



This month's special theme is ethics and public health
 . In the first
editorial, Carl Coleman et al. discuss the key issues in public-health
ethics   and how
WHO incorporates ethics into its mission. In the second, John Krebs
presents the ethical dilemma involved in balancing individual rights
with government intervention
 . Finally,
Cristina P Pinheiro questions the ethics of drug donations
  and proposes
alternative aid solutions.



In an interview, Mary Robinson
 , former
President of Ireland and ex-United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, talks about the need for a more ethical approach to health
policy worldwide. To complement the theme of this month's issue, John R
Williams looks at the Declaration of Helsinki
  - a set of
principles guiding medical and scientific research - and how it has
evolved over time. The cover presents a classic public-health poster on
the sharing of expert knowledge.



In the news section, Patralekha Chatterjee reports on how the boom in
clinical trials in India
  is raising
ethical concerns. Alice Ghent reports on the rising issue of global
migration and the need for more equitable access to health care
 . In the latest
in our series on primary health care, Mojgan Tavassoli reports on the
Iranian health houses
  that have been
the "powerful arm of rural health care" since the 1980-88 war against
Iraq.



Continuing the theme of public health and ethics, Farzaneh Zahedi &
Bagher Larijani discuss how legislation that deals with modern
bioethical issues
  has been
enacted in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Adnan A Hyder et al. look at
how Malaysia and Pakistan successfully integrated ethics
 to produce a
positive change in public-health policy.



Sofia Gruskin et al. outline the historical evolution of placing
maternal mortality rates
  in a human
rights context. Ted Schrecker proposes that many global inequalities in
health resources
  are not
natural but are the result of deliberate policy decisions.



Margaret Carrel & Stuart Rennie explore key ethical questions that arise
during longitudinal demographic and health surveillance
 . Carlo Petrini
& Sabina Gainotti highlight the difficulties in defining ethics for
public health 
and suggest that the most relevant theory is personalism.



Jon C Tilburt & Ted J Kaptchuk propose a framework of eight ethical
requirements for research
  into the use
of herbal and traditional medicines. Samuli I Saarni et al. present a
model for the ethical analysis of implementing new health technologies
 . Doruk Ozgediz
et al. present growing evidence on the cost-effectiveness of surgery
  in addressing
the global burden of disease.



Using the case of type 1 diabetes, David Beran et al. assert that access
to medicines 
is only one part of the dilemma of care for chronic diseases in Mali,
Mozambique and Zambia. Christopher McDougall et al. report on the
evolution of cooperation among the international community in dealing
with public health security
 .




Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008, 577-656





IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN




WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care; Religion
and science; Positive policy change; Denaturalizing scarcity; Migrant
health; Many barriers to treatment; Ethics versus economics; A human
rights approach; Ethics and technology; Ethical oversight needed; A
personalist approach; Guidelines for herbal medicine research; Emerging
epidemics; Time to revisit surgery; Health sector needs to support
abused women
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EDITORIALS




The contribution of ethics to public health
- Carl H Coleman et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055954
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The importance of public-health ethics
- John Krebs
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052431
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Drug donations: what lies beneath
- Cristina P Pinheiro
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048546
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NEWS





Clinical trials in India: ethical concerns
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Overcoming migrants' barriers to health
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Iranian health houses open the door to primary care
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>From rhetoric to reality. An interview with Mary Robinson.
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Recent news from WHO
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POLICY AND PRACTICE





Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history,
connections and a proposed practical approach
- Sofia Gruskin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500
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Herbal medicine research and global health: an ethical analysis
- Jon C Tilburt & Ted J Kaptchuk
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042820
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Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics
- Ted Schrecker
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050880
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Integrating ethics, health policy and health systems in low- and
middle-income countries: case studies from Malaysia and Pakistan
- Adnan A Hyder et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051110
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Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations
- Margaret Carrel & Stuart Rennie
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051037
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Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health technologies
- Samuli I Saarni et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051078
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A personalist approach to public-health ethics
- Carlo Petrini & Sabina Gainotti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051193
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National bioethical legislation and guidelines for biomedical research
in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Farzaneh Zahedi & Bagher Larijani
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050724
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Health-sector responses to intimate partner violence in low- and
middle-income settings: a review of current models, challenges and
opportunities
- Manuela Colombini et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906
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PERSPECTIVES





Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics
- Christopher W McDougall et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051771
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The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low-
and middle-income countries
- Doruk Ozgediz et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050435
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Access to medicines versus access to treatment: the case of type 1
diabetes
- David Beran et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048710
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS





The Declaration of Helsinki and public health
- John R Williams
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050955
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA





Just health: meeting health needs fairly
- Annette Rid
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054601
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Ethics and infectious disease
- Ross Upshur
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056242
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Cambridge textbook of bioethics
- Robert Dingwall
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051870
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LETTERS





Accessible public-health education: a potential growth area?
- David Sanders et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051334
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Estimation of global visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive
error
- Lalit Dandona & Rakhi Dandona
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053652
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Author reply to: Estimation of global visual impairment due to
uncorrected refractive error
- Silvio Mariotti et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056366
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Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information
and health research
- Andrew Kennedy & Carel IJsselmuiden
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052993
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Integrating cervical cancer prevention in HIV/AIDS treatment and care
programmes
- Mulindi H Mwanahamuntu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056275
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Evaluation of the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems
- Shekhar Saxena et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056341
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