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Key Documents archive results 1-8 of 8 in Health and Standards of care
Trade and Health
This series of commentaries and papers, published by The Lancet, examines the challenges to achieving a balance between trade and health. It includes analyses of the WHO and World Trade Organisation (WTO), arguing that they facilitate trade before the health of poor people. Other authors...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2009 | EN
What is the best approach to treating schizophrenia in developing countries?
Schizophrenia is relatively rare -- affecting 1% of the world's population -- but is arguably one of the most severe mental illnesses. Diagnosing and treating it can be hard enough in developed countries; the challenges are magnified in developing nations with inadequate health systems; few trained...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2007 | EN
The challenge of cancer control in Africa
Worldwide, cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB put together. In developing countries where chronic diseases are now growing alongside infectious diseases, new strategies need to be developed. This article outlines how to develop an effective cancer strategy in African...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Research capacity for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Results of a mapping project
This joint publication between the World Health Organization and the Global Forum for Health Research reveals mental health research capacity in 114 low-income and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The extensive review identified over 10,000 articles,...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2007 | EN
Helsinki discord? A controversial declaration
In this article Brian Vastag looks at the initial mixed response to the October 2000 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, in particular those provisions relating to the use of placebos and the availability of therapies to participants after research is over. The views range from enthusiastic...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2000 | EN
The 2000 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki: a step forward or more confusion?
In October 2000 -- a time when there was great attention and intense public controversy surrounding clinical (especially multinational) research -- the World Medical Association (WMA) adopted the 5th revision of the Declaration of Helsinki. These revisions are the most substantial adaptations to be...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2001 | EN
Bearing witness: ethics in domestic violence research
This article discusses the challenges of applying ethical principles in epidemiological research (including respect for people, non-maleficence, beneficience, and justice) to population research on domestic violence, an area where poorly designed research could put women in violent relationships at...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2002 | EN
Human rights, politics, and reviews of research ethics
Although the human rights movement and the sphere of research ethics have overlapping principles and goals, there has been little attempt to incorporate external political and human rights contexts into research ethics codes or ethics reviews. Every element of a research ethics review -- the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2002 | EN
