HED-400 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
1. Universal
A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the
Decla- ration
observance of specified rights.
of Human
Rights
Human rights should be considered first and foremost when assessing
2. Rights-based
health policies/practices, and analyzing the health impacts resulting
ap- proach
from violations of human rights when considering ways to improve
population health.
3. limits to
Circumstances in which someone's rights may be suspended; for
human rights
example, out- break of an emerging or a reemerging disease (limits
should be as narrow as possible and carried out with due process)
4. Human
Health condition that is stigmatized and discriminated against
Rights and
Associated issues:
HIV/AIDS
-Protecting the rights of people who are HIV-positive to employment,
schooling, and
participation in social activities
-Ensuring access to care -Policies regarding testing - Protection of
confidentiality
5. research on
-Most research studies don't benefit the people who participate in
hu- man them.
subjects -Ethical concerns about putting participants at risk for the sake of
other people's health.
6. Nazi Medical -Experiments on euthanasia victims, prisoners of war, occupants of
Ex- periments concentration camps
-International Scientific Commission investigated and documented
abuses after war
-Questions over whether it is ethical to use data the Nazis generated
7. Tuskegee Study an unethical study about syphilis in which subjects (African American
men) were denied treatment so that the ettects of the disease could
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, HED-400 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
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8. AZT Trials
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1. Universal
A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the
Decla- ration
observance of specified rights.
of Human
Rights
Human rights should be considered first and foremost when assessing
2. Rights-based
health policies/practices, and analyzing the health impacts resulting
ap- proach
from violations of human rights when considering ways to improve
population health.
3. limits to
Circumstances in which someone's rights may be suspended; for
human rights
example, out- break of an emerging or a reemerging disease (limits
should be as narrow as possible and carried out with due process)
4. Human
Health condition that is stigmatized and discriminated against
Rights and
Associated issues:
HIV/AIDS
-Protecting the rights of people who are HIV-positive to employment,
schooling, and
participation in social activities
-Ensuring access to care -Policies regarding testing - Protection of
confidentiality
5. research on
-Most research studies don't benefit the people who participate in
hu- man them.
subjects -Ethical concerns about putting participants at risk for the sake of
other people's health.
6. Nazi Medical -Experiments on euthanasia victims, prisoners of war, occupants of
Ex- periments concentration camps
-International Scientific Commission investigated and documented
abuses after war
-Questions over whether it is ethical to use data the Nazis generated
7. Tuskegee Study an unethical study about syphilis in which subjects (African American
men) were denied treatment so that the ettects of the disease could
1/
7
, HED-400 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
be studied
8. AZT Trials
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7
