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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Health law"”.
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Development of Systematic Knowledge Management for Public Health: A Public Health Law Ontology
… legal structures and the authority vested in health agencies and other partners within the public health system are essential to improving the public's health. Variation between the laws of different jurisdictions within the United States allows for natural experimentation and research into …
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A critical analysis of South African mental health law : a selection of human rights and criminal justice issues
… with determining whether South African mental health law and its application in practice is in need of reform. In order to reach its objectives, the thesis measures mental health legislation and criminal law that affect the mentally ill individual or offender against international and local …
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Accessing the Authentic Psychiatric Experience: Using Psychiatric Artefacts and Archival Documents to Facilitate Object-Based Learning in the Law and Criminology Classroom
… Object-Based Learning (OBL) into mental health law curricula. The pedagogy developed for this study facilitated learner construction of a more accurately informed version of the mid-century ‘mental patient’ and the institution of psychiatry. The objects acted as powerful conduits by which …
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Regulating the marketing practices of the unhealthy food and beverage industry
… including the WellCCat framework, a Public Health Law framework, the health policy triangle framework, and a political economy framework. Data were analysed using directed content analysis and reflexive thematic analysis. Findings: There is a weak World Health Organization directive for …
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Increasing the Participation of Persons with Mental Illness in Mental Health Treatment Decision-Making
… and unable to meaningfully participate in mental health treatment decision-making. This thesis answers the pivotal question of how we can increase the participation of involuntarily treated persons in the mental health treatment decision-making process. To achieve this goal, a participatory model …
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Survol de la responsabilité de l'infirmière praticienne au Québec et en Ontario
… for their expertise in a specifie area of healthcare. They act as professional nurses that perform tasks belonging to both the nursing and the medical fields. In response to the changing health needs of the population, the Quebec legislator expanded the traditional role of nurses by …
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The detention of dangerous severe personality disordered offenders under mental health legislation: legal and ethical issues
… as criteria for detention under English law and under the European Convention of Human Rights. A brief history of detaining dangerous persons will be followed by an examination of previous practice and legal justification for detaining dangerous persons under mental health law. The …
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Atuação farmacêutica no campo da saúde mental : uma revisão da literatura
With the new concept of health, how to exercise the pharmacy profession to promote recovery and this involves a new way of acting. With the enactment of the Health Law and the psychiatric reform, it is understood that mental health care should be object of health professionals as well as physical …
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Decisional Capacity in Psychiatric Inpatient Settings: Understanding and Addressing Key Barriers to Shared Decision Making
… the current study interviewed 25 acute mental health inpatient psychiatrists across 17 unique VHA sites to: 1) determine how psychiatric inpatient psychiatrists are determining patients’ ability to make medication management decisions and, 2) gather psychiatric inpatient psychiatrists’ …
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Re-examining the best interests of child principle. Can this help tamariki and rangatahi Māori achieve the highest attainable standard of mental health?
… the highest attainable standard of mental health. Although New Zealand has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, which enshrines the “best interests of the child” principle, significant disparities in mental health outcomes remain between tamariki and …
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Creating a Cultural Analysis Tool for the Implementation of Ontario's Civil Mental Health Laws
… in the implementation of Ontario’s civil mental health laws. The rationale behind creating the CAT is based on research suggesting that ethno-racial people with mental health disabilities experience inequities and differential outcomes while interacting with Ontario’s civil mental health laws. …
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Unleashed From the Shackles: Modern Media's Portrayal of Mental Illness: United States of Tara
… her experiences with others by advocating mental health awareness through television shows and support groups. Wax was one of many other speakers included in Technology Entertainment Design's (TED's) All Kinds of Minds segment. Elyn Saks, another speaker within this segment, overcame many …
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Involuntary admission of young people to approved centres in Ireland: finding the voice of the young person a rights-based perspective
… evolving component of human rights-based law. This thesis is concerned with the voice of the young person, aged 16-18 years, in the involuntary admission process and the evaluation of proposals for reform. Given the prevalence of young people with mental health difficulties in Ireland and …
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A Legal Framework for the Assessment of a Voluntary Request for Medical Assistance in Dying
… C-14, there has been further evolution in the law to allow patients to access MAID if their natural death is reasonably foreseeable or even if natural death is not reasonably foreseeable provided the associated safeguards are met. The evolution of the law to include those whose natural death is …
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A qualitative study examining the Scottish legislative framework dealing with mental health, incapacity and adults at risk of harm, from the perspective of professional staff undertaking related social work functions
… framework, which deals with incapacity, mental health and adult protection from the perspective of professional staff exercising related social work functions. Social work departments have a lead role in respect of the three main Acts. As a social worker employed in one of these authorities, I …
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User behavior modeling: Towards solving the duality of interpretability and precision
… are used in sectors as diverse as education, health, law to e-commerce, and social media. The two main challenges for user behavioral modeling are building an in-depth understanding of online user behavior and using advanced computational techniques to capture behavioral uncertainties …
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Medical and public health considerations in U.S. national disaster planning--The \"All-Hazards\" approach
… many shortcomings are still evident. Public health and medical considerations pose a particularly complex challenge. This Capstone explores how we have come to our current level of readiness, and where we can improve, by reviewing relevant legislation, roles and authorities of key …
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New Jersey Overdose Prevention Act: Police Officers’ Experiences At A Drug Overdose Scene
… in an attempt to save lives. Good Samaritan Laws (GSLs) and advances in medicine have been implemented differently in different states. For example, the enactment of the New Jersey Overdose Prevention Act (NJOPA) and the use of naloxone by first responders are ways that state officials try to …
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Harmonizing core competencies for Master of Public Health Training programmes in Africa
Africa faces numerous health challenges, including high burdens of diseases and fragile health which hinder efforts to prevent, address, mitigate, and control these health challenges. The skills taught in MPH programs are recognized globally as being crucial to addressing these challenges and …
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An Ethical Model for Mandatory Reporting to Avoid Preventable Adverse Harm in Health Care
… the dissertation is to undertake an analysis in healthcare ethics that focuses upon organizational ethics to resolve problems related to medical error in the U.S. The ethical argument focuses upon justifying a model of mandatory reporting nationally. While countless others have argued in favor of …
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