In this week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how critical medicine supply chains are identified and secured. The featured guest is Dr Amy Cadwallader, the director of regulatory…
This commentary on a case considers consequences of a so-called “zero-risk” paradigm now common in psychiatric inpatient decision-making. Iatrogenic harms of this approach must be balanced against promoting patients’ safety and well-being. This article suggests how to collaboratively assess risk…
Since the Joint Commission shifted its focus to suicide mitigation strategy implementation in behavioral health units in 2007, examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever. This article considers architectural evolutions in how…
Patients often report experiencing boredom during inpatient psychiatry stays. Because patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored, this article considers ethical dimensions of inpatient units’ designs that limit patients’ autonomy or access to activities or interactions…
This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes ethical considerations when a study population includes learner participants.
Importance Interest in administering psychedelic agents as mental health treatment is growing rapidly. As drugmakers invest in developing psychedelic medicines for several psychiatric indications, lawmakers are enacting legal reforms to speed access globally, and health agencies are preparing to approve these…
Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of…
The environments in which we live affect individual and community risk for disease transmission and illness severity. Communities’ and neighborhoods’ waste stream management designs and health care organizations’ spatial and structural architecture also influence individuals’ and communities’ pathogenic vulnerabilities and…
Since the 1990s, multiple infectious diseases have “spilled over” from nonhuman animals to infect humans and cause significant global morbidity and mortality. Despite efforts to detect and respond to such threats, surveillance and mitigation efforts have been criticized as ineffective….
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