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| Kentikelenis (The Lancet, 2014) |
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Spending cuts impact on the Greek health system - Re-emergence of malaria, spike in suicide rates, infant mortality and HIV infection.
Since cost of healthcare is shifted from the state to the individual, poorer individuals are impacted more. |
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| In 2013 noticed a shift in the epidemiology of AIDS - from 'risk groups' to 'risk behaviours' |
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| In 2009 wrote that two of the most significant topics in public health (obesity and smoking) relate to 'structural violence'. |
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| Actions within the medical profession should prima facie be dictated by the relevant principle unless the decision involves a conflict between two moral principles, with the 4 moral principles being Autonomy, Justice, Non-maleficence and Beneficence. |
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| In 2009 wrote that NHS quasi markets combine the efficiency gains of free market with the equity benefits of public services - BUT made little impact on patient service. |
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| In 2009 talked about how professional boundaries safeguard the patient-doctor relationship and warned of the effect social networking may have on this as it permits dual relationships. |
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In their 2013 discussion of research ethics, highlight the importance of:
-Essentiality
-Voluntariness and consent
-Non-exploitation
-Confidentiality
-Risk minimization
-Public interest maximation
and argue that the following are problematic in psychiatric research:
-Consent
-Confidentiality (due to the stigma of psychiatric illness) |
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| Karnieli-Miller et al (2010) |
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| In 2010 discusses how narratives of the 'hidden curriculum' of medical education (events that students consider didactic but are not formally taught) can be used to the improvement of medical education. |
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| In 2014 found that the association of overall poorer self-reported health in women is eliminated when adjusted for income - suggesting the causal link between gender and health inequality. |
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| Study about labels and learning disabilities: dyslexic children's parents and school teacher had to grade texts supposedly written by dyslexic child and normal child. They down graded dyslexic's work one when they were identical. |
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| Statins and mass prescription is getting the public to finally quetsion mass medicalisation. |
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| Epilepsy in India has many treatment options available but treatment-seeking behaviour is inhibited by social stigma of 'evil possession'. |
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| The environmental cues (mass media culture) that signal to individuals who think they are overweight that they are at risk of being negatively stereotyped, devalued, or rejected because of their weight can lead them to experience social identity threat. This can lead to behaviours that themselves contribute to obesity. |
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| Talks about the desirability of stigma like in cancer-survivors. |
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