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Allergies and asthma: employing principles of social justice as a guide in public health policy development
(Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CRÉUM): LES ATELIERS DE L’ÉTHIQUE, 2010)
The growing epidemic of allergy and allergy-induced asthma poses a significant challenge to population health. This article, written for a target audience of policy-makers in public health, aims to contribute to the ...
Nutrigenomics for Global Health: Ethical Challenges for Underserved Populations
Nutrigenomics for Global Health
(2009-09)
Nutrigenomics covers disparate fields of nutrition science and has been defined in many different ways. In fact, this emerging field of science has multiple facets, many of which do not generate the same ethical issues. ...
Pharmacogenomic technologies : a necessary “luxury” for better global public health?
(BMC, 2011)
Background: Pharmacogenomic technologies aim to redirect drug development to increase safety and efficacy of
individual care. There is much hope that their implementation in the drug development process will help respond
to ...
Impacts of the early COVID-19 pandemic on the work of bioethicists in Canada
(Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, 2022-12-08)
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent
ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fields of
healthcare, public health, and scientific research in Canada. In
the province of Quebec, a group of ...
Ethical Principles as a Guide in Implementing Policies for the Management of Food Allergies in Schools
(Sage, 2010-03-26)
Food allergy in children is a growing public health problem that carries a significant risk of anaphylaxis such that schools and child care facilities have enacted emergency preparedness policies for anaphylaxis and methods ...
Reproductive Tourism in Argentina: Clinic Accreditation and its Implications for Consumers, Health Professionals and Policy Makers
(2010)
A subcategory of medical tourism, reproductive tourism has been the subject of much public and policy debate in recent years. Specific concerns include: the exploitation of individuals and communities, access to needed ...
Principles for Incorporating Farmers in the Ethical Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops
(2010)
A current advance within the agricultural industry is the use of genetic engineering to produce novel crops for food production. This technology raises questions about how societies should position themselves with respect ...
Maternal depressive symptoms and children’s cognitive development : does early childcare and child’s sex matter?
(Public library of science, 2020-01-10)
Background
Maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) have been associated with poorer child cognitive development. Some studies have shown that childcare attendance moderates associations between MDS and child behavior problems, ...
Five-year predictors of physical activity decline among adults in low-income communities: a prospective study
(2007)
BACKGROUND:Obesity in North America is now endemic, and increased understanding of the determinants of physical inactivity is critical. This analysis identified predictors of declines in physical activity over 5 years among ...
Supervisor-Student Relations: Examining the Spectrum of Conflicts of Interest in Bioscience Laboratories
(2009)
Much attention has been given to financial conflicts of interest (COI) in bioscience research. Yet to date, surprisingly little attention has focused on other COIs that arise in supervisor-student relations. We examine a ...