Ethics Of Public Health Partnerships
ANSWERS
What Are the Various Public Health Professional Ethics?
a) Professionalism:
Also known as public health ethics.
Professional ethics is concerned with the mission of public health, which is to protect and promote health and focuses on the qualities of professional personality of public health practitioners who hold themselves accountable to morals or codes of ethics.
b) Ethical application:
Also known as public health ethics.
Applied ethics seeks to improve common principles that can be applied in real-world situations to guide ethical behavior.
It is situational because it “seeks to detect morally applicable decisions in concrete cases.”
c) Ethics of advocacy:
Also known as public health ethics.
Applied ethics is a less theoretical approach that most likely exemplifies the most persistent ethical orientation in practice.
Practitioners of public health see themselves as promoters.
Advocacy ethics entails advocating for the goals, intermediaries, and improvements most likely to achieve the moral goals of public health.
d) Ethical considerations in critical public health:
Critical public health ethics shed light on issues that may be obscured from view by conventional ways of thinking or acting.
Critical ethics is broadly informed, practically oriented, and deliberates social values and tendencies in examining and comprehending the current state of public health and the ethical issues it raises.
Steps in an Ethical Decision-Making Process:
Recognizing and identifying the problem
Data collection/collection
Problem framing
Morally relevant conditions and considerations are assessed.
Decision Implementation
Decision-making Process Evaluation
Ethics Matters for Public Health Professionals:
Protect the dignity, rights, and well-being of the people/citizens.
To promote significant advancements in health research, scientific advances, newer vaccines, and drugs.
To strike a balance between individual freedom and liberty.
To hold the government accountable for providing health protection to its citizens.
To foster trust between public health professionals and the general public.
To advocate for social and moral values.
Ethics contributes to the internationalization of public health issues.
To ensure the people’s sovereignty and liberty.
Understanding the fundamental issues raised in public health concerning the role of governments, identifying the shortcomings of existing bioethics models and dealing with such shortcomings, and
To ensure the global relevance of health and public health issues, which makes these issues so important.
Ethical standards uphold values essential to collaborative work, such as belief, accountability, mutual respect, and objectivity.
Public-health ethics are also a topic of discussion at the international level to ensure international support and collaboration.
QUESTION
Ethics Of Public Health Partnerships
You are a nurse in an inner city hospital dealing with minorities, especially a large population of immigrants from Asia, Europe, and South America. Your administrator is emphatic about the need to be sensitive to alternate life styles, especially TQI persons. Most of your patients have cultural difficulties with such individuals, treating them as “dead” and rejecting them from participation in their family lives.
What do you do? What is the ethical approach in this situation? How do you treat the community knowing that taking sides will have repercussions and limit your ability to interact with others in the community and, possibly, treat other individuals in the community.
Be specific and give examples, using at least two outside references, to buttress your argument. Cite all sources in APA format.