International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 12 Issue 2

Editorial

Theo Gavrielides

Addressing obesity in Roma communities: a community readiness approach

Shahid Islam, Neil Small, Maria Bryant, Tiffany Yang, Anna Cronin de Chavez, Fiona Saville, Josie Dickerson

Participation in community programmes by the Roma community is low, whilst this community presents with high risk of poor health and low levels of wellbeing. To improve rates of…

Moderating effects of age on personality, driving behavior towards driving outcomes

Siti Haerani, Rika Dwi Ayu Parmitasari, Elsina Huberta Aponno, Zany Irayati Aunalal

The purpose of this paper is to identify the effect of people’s personality on driving behavior and traffic accidents and violations in the province of South Sulawesi.

Catastrophic healthcare expenditures among Iranian households: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Satar Rezaei, Abraha Woldemichael, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Ali Kazemi Karyani

Protecting households against financial risks of healthcare services is one of the main functions of health systems. The purpose of this paper is to provide a pooled estimate of…

Workplace violence against physicians and medical students in west part of Iran

Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Amjad Mohamadi Bolbanabad, Bayan Moloudi, Hossein Safari, Bakhtiar Piroozi

The purpose of this paper is to survey the prevalence of exposure to workplace violence (WPV) including physical violence, verbal abuse, bullying as well as its related factors…

Analysis of the Health Sector Evolution Plan from the perspective of equity in healthcare financing: a multiple streams model

Telma Zahirian Moghadam, Pouran Raeissi, Mehdi Jafari-Sirizi

Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP) is known as the biggest and most comprehensive reform in Iran’s health system. One of the goals of HSEP is to reduce inequity in the healthcare…

Explaining the challenges of academic professional ethics training from the perspective of faculty members at Ardabil University of Medical Sciences: a qualitative study

Shahram Habibzadeh, Hamed Zandian, Hasan Edalatkhah, Mohammad Mehrtak

Education systems throughout the world seek to take the advantage of every presenting opportunity for achieving a standard level of ethical accountability and capability. The…

Technological improvement in modern health care applications using Internet of Things (IoT) and proposal of novel health care approach

Mamata Rath, Binod Pattanayak

With the development of emerging engineering technology and industrialization, there are greater changes in the life style of people in smart urban cities; therefore, there is…

Emotional empathy mediates the relationship between personality traits and coping strategies in orphan and non-orphan students

Muhammad Aqeel, Rafia Komal, Tanvir Akhtar

The purpose of this paper is to inspect the potential mediation pathways among emotional empathy, personality traits and coping strategies in orphan and non-orphan students…