scholarly journals Building Eminence through Evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Horgan
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Front Line ◽  
New Developments ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

With modern-day medicine going the way it is - new developments, great science, the advent of personalised medicine and more - there's little doubt that healthcare can move in the right direction if everything is put in place to allow it to do so. But in many areas progress is being halted. Or at the very least slowed. Like it or not, many front-line healthcare professionals still do things the way they did things three decades ago, and are reluctant to adapt to new methods (assuming they are aware of them). Evidence exists that today's rapidly developing new medicines and treatments can positively influence healthcare in modern-day Europe, but a gap in education (also applying to patients and politicians), often exacerbated by “fake news” on the internet, is hampering uptake of new and often better methods, while even causing doubts about vaccines. More understanding at every level will inevitably lead to swifter integration of innovation into the healthcare systems of Europe. The time to look, listen and learn has come.

Family Formation and Parenthood

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-254
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
New Methods ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reproductive Techniques ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the interpretation of ‘family life’ under Article 8 and the way that this has evolved throughout the Court’s history. It contrasts the approach of the Court to ‘family life’ between children and mothers, with ‘family life’ between fathers and children, noting the focus of the Court on function over form. It then turns to the establishment of parenthood, both in terms of maternity and paternity, as well as the right of the child to establish information concerning their origins. Finally, the chapter examines the changing face of the family, considering new family forms, including same-sex couples and transgender parents, as well as new methods of reproduction, such as artificial reproductive techniques and surrogacy.

scholarly journals Fair Is Better than Sensational: Man Is to Doctor as Woman Is to Doctor

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malvina Nissim ◽  
Rik van Noord ◽  
Rob van der Goot
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Vector Spaces ◽  
Word Embeddings ◽  
Detection Tool ◽  
The Right ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Do So ◽  
Computer Programmer ◽  
The Way

Analogies such as man is to king as woman is to X are often used to illustrate the amazing power of word embeddings. Concurrently, they have also been used to expose how strongly human biases are encoded in vector spaces trained on natural language, with examples like man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker. Recent work has shown that analogies are in fact not an accurate diagnostic for bias, but this does not mean that they are not used anymore, or that their legacy is fading. Instead of focusing on the intrinsic problems of the analogy task as a bias detection tool, we discuss a series of issues involving implementation as well as subjective choices that might have yielded a distorted picture of bias in word embeddings. We stand by the truth that human biases are present in word embeddings, and, of course, the need to address them. But analogies are not an accurate tool to do so, and the way they have been most often used has exacerbated some possibly non-existing biases and perhaps hidden others. Because they are still widely popular, and some of them have become classics within and outside the NLP community, we deem it important to provide a series of clarifications that should put well-known, and potentially new analogies, into the right perspective.

scholarly journals Markets, governments, and politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-177
Author(s):  
Deepak Nayyar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
Efficient Markets ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Right ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows that governments performed a critical role, ranging from leader to catalyst or supporter, in the economic transformation of Asia spanning half a century, while their willingness and ability to do so depended on the nature of the state, which in turn was shaped by politics. It argues that the state and the market are complements rather than substitutes and that the two institutions must adapt to each other in an interactive co-operative manner over time. Success at development in Asia was about managing this evolving relationship between states and markets, by finding the right balance in their respective roles, which also changed over time. This experience suggests that efficient markets and effective governments, in tandem, provided the way forward to development. It is only institutionalized checks and balances that can make governments more development-oriented and people-friendly. Thus, for Asia’s continuing journey in development, democracy is clearly better than the alternatives.

scholarly journals Adoption of Pharmacogenomic Testing: A Marketing Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita-Ioanna Koufaki ◽  
Kariofyllis Karamperis ◽  
Polixeni Vitsa ◽  
Konstantinos Vasileiou ◽  
George P. Patrinos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Genomic Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Middle Income Countries

Pharmacogenomics is becoming an important part of clinical practice and it is considered one of the basic pillars of personalised medicine. However, the rate of pharmacogenomics adoption is still low in many healthcare systems, especially in low- or middle-income countries. The low level of awareness of healthcare specialists could be a potential reason due to which pharmacogenomics application is still in a premature stage but there are several other barriers that impede the aforementioned process, including the lack of the proper promotion of pharmacogenomic testing among interested stakeholders, such as healthcare professionals and biomedical scientists. In this study, we outline the available marketing theories and innovation that are applied to personalized medicine interventions that would catalyze the adoption of pharmacogenomic testing services in clinical practice. We also present the current ethical and legal framework about genomic data and propose ways to tackle the main concerns mentioned in the literature and to improve the marketing perspective of PGx.

Critical Thinking in a World of Fake News. Teaching the Public to Make Good Choices

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Ştefana Ciortea-Neamţiu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

"Fake news are a big concern for media, audiences and governments. Some journalists are engaged in finding fake news and disclose them. Fake news is also a concern to the researchers and journalism professors, but they should not focus only on the way fake news work, or how to teach future journalists about them, a big challenge would be to teach the audiences, the public to make the right choices and identify fake news. Tackling this problem of the popularization of science and teaching the public should actually be one of the key-concerns of the journalism professors today in Romania. It is the purpose of this paper to propose a list of criteria to identify fake news, by using critical thinking, a list that could be easily explained to people from the public, so they can make good choices. The core notion used hereby will be quality. A large discussion on quality in journalism raised at the end of the 1990s in Western Europe, not so in Romania. Therefore, it seems more than appropriate to start it now. Keywords: fake news, media, critical thinking, education, public, criteria. "

scholarly journals Health Literacy: Read All about It …

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Denis Horgan ◽  
Natacha Bolanos ◽  
Ken Mastris ◽  
Luis Mendao ◽  
Nuria Malats
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Other ◽  
Optimal Result ◽  
Front Line

One of the key goals in the personalised medicine era is to improve communication between front-line healthcare professionals and their patients. The latter should have an equal role in any decisions made about their treatment, and this requires them to be able to input vital information, such as lifestyle and work circumstances, as well as to be properly informed from the other side. Discussions should be a two-way street. To help facilitate this, it is more important than ever to bring Europe together in a way that improves the already significant skills that healthcare professionals possess to permit co-decision-making which will effectively empower the patient. Clearly, the healthcare professional is trained to be an expert in diagnosing conditions and suggesting treatments. And yet the patient also knows more about his or her own lifestyle, work environment and how much he can rely on family-care resources, for example, so co-decision is a growing part of modern-day medicine. Ultimately, the two must work together to produce the optimal result.

scholarly journals For the Many, Not the Few: Patient Empowerment

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Denis Horgan ◽  
Geoffrey Henning ◽  
Ian Banks ◽  
Tom van der Wal ◽  
Stanimir Hasurdjiev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Eu

Today's patients are more knowledgable than ever before and should be placed at the centre of their own healthcare decisions. Empowering the patient is, and always will be, a fundamental pillar of personalised medicine. Front-line healthcare professionals cannot treat a patient properly without taking into account his or her perceptions of value. They cannot treat a patient properly without taking into account that patient's lifestyle and, of course, they cannot treat a patient properly without creating equal access across the EU to the best possible treatments available. The authors of this article examine ways to enhance the empowerment of Europe's patients.

scholarly journals Parents’ experiences of an e-health intervention implemented in pediatric healthcare: a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Larsson ◽  
Petra Svedberg ◽  
Susann Arvidsson ◽  
Jens M. Nygren ◽  
Ing-Marie Carlsson
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pediatric Healthcare ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Parents Experiences

Abstract Background The growing field of participation in healthcare has the potential to provide a number of benefits for children, patients, healthcare professionals and also the healthcare systems. According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), children have the right to participate in their own healthcare and make their voice heard. Children’s opportunities for understanding their conditions, sharing their views and participating in decisions regarding their care depend on healthcare professionals but also on parents’ ability to communicate and include children. E-health solutions can remove barriers to children’s communication with healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to explore parents’ perspectives on the outcomes of an e-health solution, Sisom, used by children during healthcare appointments. Methods The empirical data is based on interviews with 16 parents. In the present study constructivist, grounded theory was chosen as the method. Results The theory of enhancing participation, by orientating communication about healthcare towards the voice of the child instead of the parents, summarizes the process of how the outcome of Sisom for children lead to enhanced participation, by making the child the main actor and an agent in his/her own healthcare. The facilitators for achieving participation in Sisom were four interrelated outcomes; engaging, voice-guarding, raising awareness and integrity preserving. In addition to generating increased participation, it emerged that the use of Sisom also initiated a process, which was evident in all four subcategories that facilitated the child in coping with the experience of having an illness. Conclusions We conclude, that Sisom orientated communication about healthcare towards the voice of the child instead of the parents as well as including the child in the dialogue with the healthcare professional and thus increasing the child’s participation and human rights.

scholarly journals Tolerantization of interfaith relations in Ukraine

2008 ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
False Information ◽  
The West ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Freedom of expression gives us the right to say what we think, but it does not oblige us to do so. This is evidenced by the so-called "cartoon conflict" associated with the name of Mohammed. He confirmed the differences of civilizations: we have a misunderstanding in the West of the psychology of the religiosity of the East. At the same time, if one did not have enough understanding of deep religious feelings, spurred by their inattention, the other showed a clear exaggeration of what was done and even perceived false information of what happened, for the truth. The East deepened the conflict of civilizations by giving it the right to use, as an argument against Western civilization, the belief that democracy, which it carries, and the freedom of speech it stands for, could open the way to ridicule and abuse of their faith.

The Right to Come and Go

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-570
Author(s):  
Miranda Spieler
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
Public Rights ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Other participants in this forum will have addressed the way American common law shaped the meaning of public rights in postbellum Louisiana. Here I expand on Rebecca Scott's intuition about the transnational character of Louisiana's 1868 Constitution. I do so by suggesting a resonance between French legal writing and the Louisianan understanding of public rights. The innovative spirit of Edward Tinchant becomes all the more striking when his ideas are put into conversation with the language of rights in postrevolutionary France.

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