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Failure to respect this is often associated with harm to human health

Human rights

Assess Health policies, programs, and practices in terms of impact on human rights. Analyze and address the health impacts resulting from violations of human rights when considering ways to improve population health. Prioritize the Fulfillment of Human Rights

The rights based approach

Circumstances in which someone's rights may be temporarily suspended , suspension of Rights should be as narrow as possible , suspension should be carried out with due process and monitored

Limits to human rights

Most research studies do not

Benefit the people who participate in them

Conducted experiments on euthanasia victims and prisoners of War

Nazi medical experiments

There are questions as to whether it is ethical to use the data that they generated

Nazis

Us Public Health Service conducted a study on the natural history of syphilis in African American men. The study went on for 40 years. Subjects were never given treatment. Eventually led to regulations for the protection of human research subjects

Tuskegee study

Drug regimen given to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Some people thought that poor people were being exploited since the trials were taking place in low-income countries. Studies remain controversial

The short-course AZT trials

First document to specify ethical principles that should guide Physicians engaged in human research

The Nuremberg code

What states that voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential?

The Nuremberg code

Developed ethical principles to guide Physicians conducting biomedical research on humans. Principles apply equally to non-physicians

The Declaration of Helsinki

U.s. National commission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research. Identified basic ethical principles. Developed guidelines for research

The Belmont report

Social value, scientific validity, Fair subject selection, acceptable risk benefit ratio, informed consent, respect for enrolled subjects

Clinical research protocol must satisfy these six conditions

What are the three important issues when the subjects are likely to be poor, undereducated and without access to care?

Standard of care, post-trial benefits, ancillary care

Principles for Distributing scarce resources are often justified by at least one of these ethical principles

Health maximization, equality, priority to the worst off, personal responsibility

Transparency about how decisions are made Kama representation from stakeholders affected, appropriate use of scientific data

Fair processes

Transmitted from animal to animal, animal to human, or human to Human

Communicable disease

Spread and contracted through food, water, bodily fluids ,Vector inhalation ,non-traumatic contact, and traumatic contact

Communicable disease

Infectious disease mortality has declined in developed countries over the last

Hundred and fifty years

Infectious diseases account for at least this many death In developing countries

Half

When were the first cases of AIDS reported?

1981

When was AIDS first defined?

1982

When was HIV identified as the cause of AIDS? When did prevention efforts in developed countries begin?

1983

When was the first regiment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of AIDS developed?

1994

In this year, highly active antiretroviral treatment was launched and death rates from AIDS in developed countries started to plummet

1996

When was the world wide incidence Peak of AIDS?

1997

President of the World Bank

Jim Kim

Since 2003 these have been made available to all citizens in Botswana

Antiretrovirals

Excellent this has drastically reduced the HIV rate in infants in Botswana

Pmtct

Studies found that taking this was effective and safe for prevention of HIV infection among heterosexual men and women

Tdf FTC

What are the leading causes of death from communicable diseases?

Lower respiratory infection, HIV, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis malaria, measles

Reduction of disease incidence, morbidity, or mortality to a locally acceptable level as a result of deliberate effort. Continued intervention required

Control

Reduction to zero of incidence of a disease in a Define geographic area. Continued intervention required

Elimination of disease

Reduction to zero of incidence of infection caused by a specific agent and a Define geographic area. Continued intervention required

Elimination of infection

Permanent reduction to zero of worldwide incidence of infection. Intervention no longer needed

Eradication

The specific infectious agent no longer exist in nature or in the laboratory

Extinction

For most infectious diseases and developing countries, only this is considered achievable at this time

Control

Polio is caused by this

A virus

This is caused by a virus. Causes paralysis of Limbs and breathing. Injectable and oral vaccines developed in the 19 fifties and sixties. Eliminated in the western hemisphere in 1991

Polio

Measles is caused by

A virus

This has a respiratory rate of infection. Easily transmitted in very infectious. Used to account for up to 30% of child deaths. Estimated at $500,000 from this in 2003 period young age and malnutrition are predictors of mortality. Vaccine is a live attenuated strain of the virus given between 6 and 15 months

Measles

There's a combined vaccine for these three diseases

Diphtheria, pertussis tetanus

This and this still has a number of deaths in developing countries

Pertussis and tetanus

This can never be eradicated because the spores are common and can live in the soil for many years

Tetanus