Public Policy of Fast Foods Fat and/or Calorie Content
Backgound. Fat and/or calorie content from fast foods has been a growing issue in the world. Due to “world events and experiences, it has been made evident by creating new relationships among medicine, public health, ethics, and human rights. Each domain has seeped into the other, making allies of public health and human rights, pressing the need for an ethics of public health, and revealing the rights-related responsibilities of physicians and other health care workers” (Mann, 1997, p.6). Eating fast food every once in a while may not hurt you long-term, but large and constant consumptions can cause serious problems. Fast food packs a plethora of calories and grams of fat into their food. …show more content…
“Ethics has been developed in a context of individual relationships, and is well adapted to the nature, practice, settings, and expectations of medical care” (Mann, 1997, p.9). Communities and individuals need to know what they are consuming and how much they are consuming. That comes with self-awareness and education. “Human rights were initially developed entirely outside the health domain and seek to articulate the societal preconditions for human well-being, seem a far more useful framework, vocabulary, and form of guidance for public health efforts to analyze and respond directly to the societal determinants of health than any inherited from the past biomedical or public health tradition” (Mann, 1997, p.10). Ethics and human rights “derive from a set of quite similar, if not identical, core values. As with medicine and public health, rather than seeing human rights and ethics as conflicting domains, it seems more appropriate to consider a continuum, in which human rights is a language most useful for guiding societal level analysis and work, while ethics is a language most useful for guiding individual behavior. From this perspective, and precisely because public health must be centrally concerned with the structure and function of society, the language of human rights is extremely useful for expressing, considering, and incorporating values into public health analysis and response” (Mann, 1997,
Backgound. Fat and/or calorie content from fast foods has been a growing issue in the world. Due to “world events and experiences, it has been made evident by creating new relationships among medicine, public health, ethics, and human rights. Each domain has seeped into the other, making allies of public health and human rights, pressing the need for an ethics of public health, and revealing the rights-related responsibilities of physicians and other health care workers” (Mann, 1997, p.6). Eating fast food every once in a while may not hurt you long-term, but large and constant consumptions can cause serious problems. Fast food packs a plethora of calories and grams of fat into their food. …show more content…
“Ethics has been developed in a context of individual relationships, and is well adapted to the nature, practice, settings, and expectations of medical care” (Mann, 1997, p.9). Communities and individuals need to know what they are consuming and how much they are consuming. That comes with self-awareness and education. “Human rights were initially developed entirely outside the health domain and seek to articulate the societal preconditions for human well-being, seem a far more useful framework, vocabulary, and form of guidance for public health efforts to analyze and respond directly to the societal determinants of health than any inherited from the past biomedical or public health tradition” (Mann, 1997, p.10). Ethics and human rights “derive from a set of quite similar, if not identical, core values. As with medicine and public health, rather than seeing human rights and ethics as conflicting domains, it seems more appropriate to consider a continuum, in which human rights is a language most useful for guiding societal level analysis and work, while ethics is a language most useful for guiding individual behavior. From this perspective, and precisely because public health must be centrally concerned with the structure and function of society, the language of human rights is extremely useful for expressing, considering, and incorporating values into public health analysis and response” (Mann, 1997,