The increasing use of participatory research (PR) approaches to address pressing public
health issues reflects PR's potential for bridging gaps between research and practice …

Background: Environmental health risks are disproportionately colocated with communities
in poverty and communities of color. In some cases, participatory research projects have …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new
technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300 …

Background Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to
access non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this practice …

Jeder der epidemiologische Studien plant, organisiert oder auswertet, muss quantitativ-
statistischer Methoden nutzen. Wer solche Untersuchungen aus erster Hand verstehen und …

The study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as
reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these …

The mandate to ensure and protect the health of the public is an inherently moral one. It
carries with it an obligation to care for the well-being of communities, and it implies the …

This article employs the Foucauldian notion of 'political rationality'to map discussions and
ideals about the responsibility of science toward society. By constructing and analyzing an …

Several citizen science (CS) initiatives have been adopted in environmental science to
monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to civic concerns. Nevertheless, CS …