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Volume 22 Number 1 Year 2016

20 articles in this issue 

Fernando Lolas

This paper aims at presenting a perspective on a global ethics useful for conducting and evaluating research on global mental health. It includes the proposal of expanding the scope of “global” to include different aspects of cultural diversity and a plea... see more

 

Renato D. Alarcón

Historical and conceptual aspects of Global Health and Global Mental Health are examined and topics such as resources, professional and social attitudes toward mental disorders, the multidimensional experience of getting ill and the presence of world syst... see more

 

Alberto Perales

After delimiting the concepts of moral and ethics the author makes a conceptual difference between psychiatry and mental health. He proposes that the former is a medical specialty while the latter is built in the health concept. Psychiatric problems corre... see more

 

Matías Irarrázaval, Fernanda Prieto, Julio Armijo

Las enfermedades mentales son comunes, crónicas y discapacitantes, y representan un problema de salud pública importante en nuestro país y en todo el mundo. Para las enfermedades mentales más comunes, disponemos actualmente de intervenciones médicas y psi... see more

 

Benjamín Vicente, Sandra Saldivia, Rolando Pihán

La OMS coloca a Chile entre los países con mayor carga de morbilidad por enfermedades psiquiátricas (23,2%) en el mundo. La depresión mayor y los trastornos por consumo de alcohol ocupan el primer y segundo lugar en las discapacidades atribuidas entre adu... see more

 

Allan Young

Efforts to investigate psychiatric disorders across cultures routinely ignore a pervasive cultural influence, namely the culture of psychiatry. This article focuses on how the culture of psychiatry affects our understanding of posttraumatic stress disorde... see more

 

Ramón Florenzano, Gabriela Huepe, Michelle Barr

This paper describes the changes in alcohol research, from a traditional individual focus on individual bodily and mental effects, to a broader focus on harm to others. This shift has coincided with broader sequential definitions of the progression from n... see more

 

Gloria Lucía Arango Bayer

Este artículo presenta uno de los objetivos de una tesis doctoral titulada “Tensiones que emergen entre los tipos de clima ético y los conflictos éticos que se presentan a médicos y enfermeros de tres IPS de Bogotá”: identificar y describir los valores y ... see more

 

Paula Peixoto, Juciara de Santana Silva, Edite Lago da Silva Sena, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery, Sérgio Donha Yarid

Estudo com o objetivo de refletir, à luz da bioética do risco e proteção, os resultados de revisão de literatura sobre o atendimento a mulheres vítimas de violência sexual. Procedemos busca em periódicos indexados nas bases de dados da Biblioteca Virtual ... see more

 

Muhtar Cokar, Yesim Isil Ulman, Nadi Bakirci

Introduction: Human trafficking, including forced prostitution, is a form of human rights violation regarding right to life and respect for human dignity. The Physician-patient relationship may serve as a process for victim identification on the basis of ... see more

 

Fatih Artvinli

Work-related diseases, injuries, risks and deaths are the issues gaining importance especially in developing countries. The ethical dimensions of occupational health and safety issues have been relatively less examined. Responsibility, consent, autonomy, ... see more

 

César Astudillo, Karem Squadrito, Germán Varas, Carlos González, Omar Sabaj

El informe de arbitraje en los procesos de revisión por pares de artículos de investigación es un género clave para explicar cómo se construye colectivamente el conocimiento científico. En estos informes los evaluadores emiten, junto con una serie de come... see more

 

Dario Palhares, Flávia Squinca, Antônio Carlos Rodrigues

Sports Medicine comprises two branches: one, related to professional athletes and the other, related to the general population vis a vis sports and physical activity. The bioethical conflicts involving professional athletes are different from those of ama... see more