scholarly journals A Redacted America: Critiquing the Lack of Transparency at Guantanamo Bay

Spectrum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darshina Dhunnoo

The willingness to undermine liberal standards of justice and imprisonment has been a major criticism of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. The camp’s propensity to evade judicial mechanisms offered on American soil is particularly due to its deliberate opacity. This paper begins with a brief overview of the major arguments in favour of the closure of the facility and the challenges that have prohibited the closure thus far, based on a review of debates and commentary found in investigative reports, legal documents, and scholarly analyses. A substantive portion of this piece will highlight three demonstrable areas where transparency is being detrimentally avoided in the conduct of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp: press access, health care, and the detainee defense counsel. A critique of increasing transparency as a possible impetus to keep the facility open will close the discussion. Ultimately, the transgressions of Guantánamo are so detrimental to American self-conception of liberal values that a correction of the facility’s opacity should be but an intermediary step to closing the facility entirely.

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Budson ◽  
Maureen K. O’Connor

As your loved one begins to experience more problems with thinking and memory, they will need help managing their health care, finances, and other aspects of daily living. They may need to leave their home in order to receive the amount or type of care they require. Preparing legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and health care proxy is an important step in planning for the future. Having conversations with your loved one early after a diagnosis ensures that they can participate in future planning as much as possible, easing your burden as increased care is required. Even if they don’t want to participate, you can still explore options so you will be ready when a crisis occurs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
N V Allamyarova ◽  
E G Sanakoeva

The legislation in the field of e-health, adopted in 2017, opens fundamentally new opportunities in the development of medical care using telemedicine technologies. The article provides an analysis of regulatory legal documents that establish the legal framework for the provision of medical care using telemedicine technologies. An assessment is made of the current state of telemedicine legal regulation in Russia. The law on telemedicine requires adjustment and refinement of existing regulations, procedures, standards of medical care with a detailed regulation of tools and situations of their application.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 395-404
Author(s):  
A.I. Lozovoj ◽  
L. N. Derecha ◽  
V. V. Myasoedov ◽  
V. A. Olkhovskiу

At present there is an urgent need for developing and improving normative and legal documents regulating the activity of forensic expert institutions of different departments while conducting comprehensive examinations. The needs of expert practice continuously require more thorough development for the order of conducting interdepartmental comprehensive examinations, specification and official explanation of issues connected with the ways of coordinating experts ’ activity, the order of their interaction at various stages of the expert study, forms of the expert panels’ operation, etc. The article considers peculiarities of the activity offorensic expert institutions’ within the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine, methodological issues of conducting a comprehensive forensic medical, forensic criminalistic and forensic motortechnical (vehicular and traceological) examinations, the ways of optimizing the interdepartmental interaction while conducting forensic expert activity of these forensic expert institutions, legal and organizational problems of regulating their forensic expert activity. The article emphasizes the need to improve this activity by improving the legal support and efficiency of the existing system for the organization of forensic expert activity of forensic expert institutions within the the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Василий Падалкин ◽  
Vasiliy Padalkin ◽  
Георгий Новиков ◽  
Georgiy Novikov ◽  
Олег Ковальцов ◽  
...  

Legal regulation of medical practice is an integral part of the Russian health care system. The improvement of regulatory legal documents in this area shows the growth in the need not only to be modern and “up to date” with the social and political environment, but to stay in balance between the rights and the obligations in legal relations in the “patient-healthcare professional-state” system. In this article we observed the novelties in legislation made to regulate the order of drugs prescription and the procedure of prescription new prescription lists. We tried to reflect the main and problematic aspects of the electronic form of prescriptions. In our article the main source of these legal changes to be used was the new Order of the Ministry of Health of Russia dated January 14, 2019 N 4n, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia on March 26, 2019 N 54173.


Author(s):  
Andrew E. Budson ◽  
Maureen K. O’Connor

As your loved one begins to experience more problems with thinking and memory, they will need help managing their health care, finances, and other aspects of daily living. They may need to leave their home in order to receive the amount or type of care they require. Preparing legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and health care proxy is an important step in planning for the future. Having conversations with your loved one early after a diagnosis ensures that they can participate in future planning as much as possible, easing your burden as increased care is required. Even if they don’t want to participate, you can still explore options so you will be ready when a crisis occurs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1350-1353
Author(s):  
Igor Gladchuk ◽  
Olena Terzi

Introduction: The analysis of the administrative and legal enforcement of health care in Ukraine indicates the lack of sufficient regulatory and legal acts due to the lack of and deficiencies in conceptual documents, doctrinal developments, strategic planning in this area. The modern administrative-legal management is historically due, since during the Soviet period health care regulation was determined by the high centralization of governance, the imperative of decision-making, the precise regulation of the activities of its subjects, the lack of overall control and supervision. The Conceptual Frameworks in this area, as shown by the analysis of scientific literature and legal documents, should include general provisions, goals, objectives, principles, legal framework, subject and object, priority areas of implementation, phases and stages, terms, amount of financial, material and technical resources, expected results. Each component of the Conceptual Frameworks should be scientifically verified, confirmed by practical experience and statistical data, and also to correspond to the real state of health care in Ukraine. Interconnectivity and intersectionality of the structural parts of the Conceptual Frameworks will ensure its effectiveness.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (329) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiza Piersiala

In Polish hospitals there are clear standards for cost accounting which can be used to report information on costs and to correctly price health care services. Medical activities of hospitals are very diverse because of the existence of different types of entities and a variety of services. The article aims to discuss the essence of the subject of cost accounting in medical entities (hospitals), in particular activity‑based costing. The article includes the conclusions of the study of the literature in the field of the subject matter and legal documents concerning the Polish health care system, especially the existing costing standards, using the research method of literature and legal acts analysis. The article, in the theoretical part, presents the essence of cost accounting systems. Additionally, elements of the new legislation are presented, with the emphasis on those that are potentially important in generating cost management information. The article provides an example of the use of resource costing in a gynaecology and obstetrics department of a hospital.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
O. K. Bumay ◽  
G. S. Torshin ◽  
S. V. Malinina

Purpose: to analyze information on cases of evacuation of seafarers from seacrafts for medical reasons and make proposals on improvement of health maintenance for personnel of sea and river crafts.Materials and methods: the analysis of information on cases of evacuation of seafarers from seacrafts for medical reasons for the period from 2014 to 2019 was carried out. Results and discussion: increase in mean annual rate of evacuation and absolute number of evacuated seafarers for the period from 2014 to 2019 in comparison with previous period from 2009 to 2013 was revealed. Maximum number of evacuated seafarers among five sea basins for the period from 2014 to 2019 was observed in Far Eastern and Northern sea basins and is equal to 40% and 21% of the total number of evacuated seafarers. The formation of universal health care for sick and injured people at seacrafts in the Russian Federation as well as adoption of joint normative legal documents of Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on issues relating to organization of medical evacuation and application of telemedicine technologies is required.


Author(s):  
Mukhlissul Faatih

Abstrak Menurut RIFASKES 2011, secara nasional, persentase Puskesmas yang mempunyai Hb Sahli adalah 46,3%, sisanya tidak mempunyai atau menggunakan alat pengukur hemoglobin lainnya. Persentase Puskesmas yang memiliki Hb Sahli dan digunakan pada pelayanan KIA adalah sebanyak 37,7% namun belum dapat dikonfirmasi dengan akurat berapa banyak penggunaan alat pengukur Hb POCT di fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan di Indonesia. Tujuan studi ini untuk mendapatkan gambaran kelayakan pemeriksaan hemoglobin menggunakan metode Hb Sahli, POCT hemoglobin atau metode lainnya yang sesuai di fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan Puskesmas, Polindes dan Pustu. Desain studi ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan konfirmasi data melalui wawancara dengan tenaga kesehatan bidan di lapangan, Pustu, Polindes dan Puskesmas terpilih di kab Bantul, Bogor dan Kota Pangkalpinang. Studi ini juga melakukan studi literatur baik dari buku, jurnal, artikel internet dan peraturan perundang-undangan yang terkait dengan penggunaan alat pemeriksa Hemoglobin. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa di Puskesmas yang diwawancara, umumnya menyediakan alat pemeriksa Hb Hematology Analyzer (HA), Cyanmeth Spectrofotometer dan Hb Sahli. Meskipun metode HA gratis, tetapi hanya dilakukan pada kasus-kasus tertentu saja. Metode spektrofotometer digunakan di Puskesmas sepanjang bahan habis pakai untuk pemeriksaan masih tersedia. Umumnya Puskesmas menggunakan metode Sahli, dan kalaupun menggunakan metode lain, akan kembali menggunakan Sahli, karena metode lain tidak dapat digunakaan dengan berbagai alasan dan kendala di Puskesmas. Pada Puskesmas Pembantu dan Polindes umumnya pemeriksaan Hb dirujuk ke Puskesmas pusat/induk (kecamatan) dan tidak ada ‘laboratorium’ pembantu di Pustu/ Polindes/ Poskesdes. Abstract According to RIFASKES 2011, nationally, the percentage of Puskesmas that has Hb Sahli is 46.3%, the rest do not have or use other hemoglobin measuring devices. Percentage of Puskesmas which have Hb Sahli and used in KIA service is 37,7%. It’s unconfirmed with accurate data on how much the use of POCT HB measuring devices in health care facilities in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to obtain a feasibility of hemoglobin measuring using Hb Sahli method, POCT hemoglobin or other suitable methods at Puskesmas, Polindes and Pustu have chosen from Bantul, Bogor and Pangkalpinang. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative with confirmation of data through interviews with midwife health personnel in the Pustu, Polindes and Puskesmas. The study also conducts literature studies from books, journals, internet articles and legal documents relating to the use of the Hemoglobin meter. The results of this study indicate that in the Puskesmas interviewed, generally provide Hb Hematology Analyzer (HA), Cyanmeth Spectrofotometer and Hb Sahli. Although the HA method is free of charge, it is only done in certain cases. Spectrophotometer method used in Puskesmas as long as consumables is still available. Generally Puskesmas use Sahli method, and if using other method, it will return to Sahli, because other method can not be used for various reasons and constraints in Puskesmas. In Pustu and Polindes, Hb measurement is generally referred to the Puskesmas (subdistrict) and there is no ‘laboratory’ in Pustu / Polindes / Poskesdes.


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