Application: An Ethical Dilemma
People often use ethics and morals interchangeably; according to Jennings, Kahn, Mastroianni, & Parker, (2003) they indicated that, moral is defined as the beliefs, right and wrong, but ethics is defined as the systematic study of morality provides a guiding philosophy for every decision you make, which is the theory and principles of good conduct, and morality is the practice. Ethical dilemmas arise at almost every turn in the practice of global public health. Public health ethics is a field of study that can enhance and reinforce public health decision-making and management of ethical conflict by providing vocabulary, concepts, and frameworks to analyze the ethical dimensions of cases and policies (Jennings, …show more content…
(2003). Stated, one of the global health ethics principles is “do no harm”; perform ethical analysis to tracing the chain of consequences that may cause from a given action taken, including evaluating those possible consequences as beneficial or harmful in terms of ethical principles, duties, and ideals of human freedom and well-being (Jennings et al., 2003). According to Shi et al. (2014), global health ethics principles should be aiming to prevent adverse health outcomes; respects the rights of the population nationwide; protect and promote health; respects diverse values, beliefs, and global cultures; build public trust and the institution’s effectiveness, to name just a few (Shi et al. 2014). The result of applying the principles of global health ethics will provide many benefits in changing the social and economical aspect around the globe. Turning to Veatch, (2012) points out that, in Cuba, the public health professional applied the principle of ethics by using the informed consent of the patients. The early success in limiting the impact of sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS was due in part to a decision to subject individual at risk for testing and to segregate those infected with the disease from the general population (Veatch, …show more content…
& Seage, G. (2014). Epidemiology in Public Health. (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Bozeman, B., Slade, C., & Hirsch, P. (2009). Ethics in Research and Practice. American Journal Of Public Health, 99(9), 1549-1556.
CDC, (2013). U. S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Tuskegee Timeline. Retrieved From. http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
Jennings, B., Kahn, J., Mastroianni, A., & Parker, L. S. (Eds.). (2003). Ethics and public health: Model curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.aspph.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/02/EthicsCurriculum.pdf
Shi, L.,& Johnson J..A., (Eds) (2014). Novick & Morrow's Public Health Administration. Principles for Population-Based Management. (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Veatch, R. (2012) The Basics of Bioethics. 3 ed. Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Georgetown University. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Fairchild, A. L., & Bayer, R. (1999). Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee. Science, 284(5416),
People often use ethics and morals interchangeably; according to Jennings, Kahn, Mastroianni, & Parker, (2003) they indicated that, moral is defined as the beliefs, right and wrong, but ethics is defined as the systematic study of morality provides a guiding philosophy for every decision you make, which is the theory and principles of good conduct, and morality is the practice. Ethical dilemmas arise at almost every turn in the practice of global public health. Public health ethics is a field of study that can enhance and reinforce public health decision-making and management of ethical conflict by providing vocabulary, concepts, and frameworks to analyze the ethical dimensions of cases and policies (Jennings, …show more content…
(2003). Stated, one of the global health ethics principles is “do no harm”; perform ethical analysis to tracing the chain of consequences that may cause from a given action taken, including evaluating those possible consequences as beneficial or harmful in terms of ethical principles, duties, and ideals of human freedom and well-being (Jennings et al., 2003). According to Shi et al. (2014), global health ethics principles should be aiming to prevent adverse health outcomes; respects the rights of the population nationwide; protect and promote health; respects diverse values, beliefs, and global cultures; build public trust and the institution’s effectiveness, to name just a few (Shi et al. 2014). The result of applying the principles of global health ethics will provide many benefits in changing the social and economical aspect around the globe. Turning to Veatch, (2012) points out that, in Cuba, the public health professional applied the principle of ethics by using the informed consent of the patients. The early success in limiting the impact of sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS was due in part to a decision to subject individual at risk for testing and to segregate those infected with the disease from the general population (Veatch, …show more content…
& Seage, G. (2014). Epidemiology in Public Health. (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Bozeman, B., Slade, C., & Hirsch, P. (2009). Ethics in Research and Practice. American Journal Of Public Health, 99(9), 1549-1556.
CDC, (2013). U. S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Tuskegee Timeline. Retrieved From. http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
Jennings, B., Kahn, J., Mastroianni, A., & Parker, L. S. (Eds.). (2003). Ethics and public health: Model curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.aspph.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/02/EthicsCurriculum.pdf
Shi, L.,& Johnson J..A., (Eds) (2014). Novick & Morrow's Public Health Administration. Principles for Population-Based Management. (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Veatch, R. (2012) The Basics of Bioethics. 3 ed. Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Georgetown University. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Fairchild, A. L., & Bayer, R. (1999). Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee. Science, 284(5416),