International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 8 Issue 4

Quality of life and human rights conditions in a public psychiatric hospital in Cairo

Michael Elnemais Fawzy

There is no documented evidence on service users’ perceptions of quality of care and observance of human rights in mental health residential facilities in Egypt after the new…

The experiences of mothers caring for a child with developmental disabilities: a cross cultural perspective

Kuljit Heer, John Rose, Michael Larkin, Nidhi Singhal

India has one of the more progressive disability frameworks in the developing world which tends to adopt western philosophies and principles (e.g. parent participation and…

Bedside healthcare rationing dilemmas: a survey from Portugal

Micaela Pinho, Ana Borges

– The purpose of this paper is to seek to elicit, in a context of economic crisis, the social preferences for the microallocation of scarce healthcare resources.

Examining childhood obesity and the environment of a segregated, lower-income US suburb

Martine Hackett, Clara Gillens- Eromosele, Jacob Dixon

The contribution of the built environment within communities plays a significant role in the higher rates of childhood obesity, particularly among black and Hispanic youth. The…

Suicide rates for different religious groups in the South Asian origin population in England and Wales: a secondary analysis of a national data set

Andrew Tuck, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kiran Nanchahal, Kwame McKenzie

– The purpose of this paper is to calculate the rate of suicide in different religious groups in people of South Asian origin in the UK.

Editorial

Theo Gavrielides