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The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism, medical migration (the physician "brain drain"), telemedicine, and pharmaceutical research and development, and integrates them in a philosophical discussion of issues of justice and equity relating to the globalization of health care. The time for such an examination is right. Medical tourism and telemedicine are growing multi-billion-dollar industries affecting large n...
The first-ever WHO Report on Patient Safety, the "Global Patient Safety Report 2024", offers a comprehensive overview of patient safety implementation worldwide. Aligned with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, this report explores policies, strategies, and initiatives shaping safety in health care. From analyses of country actions to in-depth summaries of burden of unsafe care, it provides crucial insights for policy-makers, health care leaders, researchers, and patient safety advocates. Explore how nations address challenges, learn from case studies and feature stories, and gain deeper understanding in priority areas for action. This report serves as a vital resource for fos...
Un grupo de estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Católica, a inicios de los años noventa, con el retorno de la democracia en Chile, sueña con contribuir a una medicina de calidad que pueda servir a las comunidades más vulnerables, lejos de las tecnologías y los hospitales, en la humildad de la atención primaria de salud. Este libro relata cómo ese anhelo de los internos, apoyados por valientes y visionarios profesores y autoridades de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, y luego por autoridades del Ministerio de Salud, se transforma en el programa de formación de médicos familiares más grande del país, con el aporte de personas, comunidades, instituciones públicas y...
Third volume of the series devoted to Pre-Hispanic Murals featuring the murals in Oaxaca and the last study coordinated by the late Emeritus researcher of IIE-UNAM, Dr. Beatriz de la Fuente. The initial project continued by Teresa Uriarte. 19 years ago Dr. De la Fuente founded the permanent seminar "La pintura mural prehispánica en México" and started a collaborative archaeological project aimed a photographing, doing reconstructive drawings of the original figures and making exact measurements to make reliable plans of the Mexican Pre-Hispanic murals, coordinating all the scientific and humanistic aspects for their preservation and conservation. The present 2 volumes are the continuation ...
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