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Kiarash Aramesh, Hefazi Targhabeh Mitra,
Volume 5, Issue 0 (Vol5,Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2005)
Abstract
One of the most important summary measures of population health, is Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), introduced for the first time in the project of Global Burden of Disease (GBD), that is the newest as well as the most accepted and familial summary measure of health and the burden of diseases has been measured by this measure at national and regional levels in many countries of the world. One of the most important results of the project of the global burden of disease was revealing the great burden of mental diseases. For measuring the burden of disease, there is frequently need to do value judgments or ethical judgments. Also, this methodology has been criticized ethically. In Iran, these ethical concerns have not been assessed separately yet. In thid article we briefly assessed the ethical issues regarding this methodology and its implications in measuring the burden of the mental diseases.
Kiarash Aramesh, Mitra Hefazi Targhabeh,
Volume 5, Issue 0 (Vol5,Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2005)
Abstract
Background: Professionalism is currently a chief concern across the continuum of medical sciences and there is a great deal of efforts to clarify its theoretical components and to measure them. For participation of Iranian medical scientific society in this universal challenge, there is a need to explain and interpret the state of art of this topic in the world.
Methods: We selected the most related articles among the related resources fount through searches of databases, and then asked the related questions of the literature identified
Results: The main core of the professionalism consists of the attitudes and behaviors through them, the patient's interests take priority to the physician's self-interests. Begun in 1990, the professionalism project has reached to its main theoretical results, that is: Physicians' charter on medical professionalism. Regarding the measurement of the professionalism, a reliable and valid measuring method has not been achieved yet.
Conclusion: Achieving to a perfect definition depends on quantifying of its components in the related questionnaires. Regarding the measurement of the professionalism, some great efforts have been done. We propose performing some researches for clarifying the theoretical components and measuring the professionalism in the cultural and professional environment of Iran.
