An Ethical Dilemma
Master of Public Health, Walden University
PUBH 6129E: Global Perspectives of Health
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, An Ethical Dilemma
An overview of how ethics relates to global health.
Global health ethics is a relatively new term used to conceptualize the process of applying
moral value to health issues that are usually characterized by a global level effect or require
action coordinated at a global level (Stapleton et al., 2014). It may also refer to health-related
topics in and of themselves through a content approach.
An analysis of the ethical dimensions of research, interventions, and policies that apply to
the global health environment.
Health, health care, and public health issues are centered on ethics. "Global health" is the study,
research, and practice of increasing global health and health equity (Markle, 2014). Global health
blends population-based prevention and individual clinical therapy to solve health care
transitional issues. What is an ethical concern in research? Remarkably, the outcome varies
depending on the chosen ethical norm (Bernabe, 2016). NIH researchers published seven basic
ethical research principles: social and clinical value; scientific validity; fair subject selection;
favorable risk-benefit ratio; independent review; informed consent; and respect for potential and
enrolled subjects (NIH, 2016). Thus, individuals invited to participate in research should
understand the study's goal, risks, and advantages before participating with informed consent.
Public health interventions raise concerns about harm (such as stigma, lost opportunity costs,
and threats to autonomy), justice, and social solidarity (particularly with regard to free-riders),
whereas medical interventions aim to improve a population's health by emphasizing prevention
over treatment (rather than the individual).
There are two types of public health initiatives: educational and environmental. Individuals'
understanding of particular hazards, such as those associated with clinical trials and racial
inequities, is addressed via educational campaigns. Environmental interventions seek to alter the
social and physical factors that promote, necessitate, or reinforce good or ill behavior. The
purpose of public health ethics is to discuss the global health difficulties that many cultures
confront and the procedures that will be implemented to solve the ethical dilemma.
Case 2: Blood Donor Racial Profiling
Global socioeconomic and health inequities are racial. Inequality in health and poverty affects
races. In the present day, 99.9% of human DNA is shared by all people, regardless of physical or
physiological racial traits. Experts and governments worldwide have clearly outgrown the logical
taxonomy (Markle et al., 2014). Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice have
14:07:00 GMT -05:00
Master of Public Health, Walden University
PUBH 6129E: Global Perspectives of Health
14:07:00 GMT -05:00
, An Ethical Dilemma
An overview of how ethics relates to global health.
Global health ethics is a relatively new term used to conceptualize the process of applying
moral value to health issues that are usually characterized by a global level effect or require
action coordinated at a global level (Stapleton et al., 2014). It may also refer to health-related
topics in and of themselves through a content approach.
An analysis of the ethical dimensions of research, interventions, and policies that apply to
the global health environment.
Health, health care, and public health issues are centered on ethics. "Global health" is the study,
research, and practice of increasing global health and health equity (Markle, 2014). Global health
blends population-based prevention and individual clinical therapy to solve health care
transitional issues. What is an ethical concern in research? Remarkably, the outcome varies
depending on the chosen ethical norm (Bernabe, 2016). NIH researchers published seven basic
ethical research principles: social and clinical value; scientific validity; fair subject selection;
favorable risk-benefit ratio; independent review; informed consent; and respect for potential and
enrolled subjects (NIH, 2016). Thus, individuals invited to participate in research should
understand the study's goal, risks, and advantages before participating with informed consent.
Public health interventions raise concerns about harm (such as stigma, lost opportunity costs,
and threats to autonomy), justice, and social solidarity (particularly with regard to free-riders),
whereas medical interventions aim to improve a population's health by emphasizing prevention
over treatment (rather than the individual).
There are two types of public health initiatives: educational and environmental. Individuals'
understanding of particular hazards, such as those associated with clinical trials and racial
inequities, is addressed via educational campaigns. Environmental interventions seek to alter the
social and physical factors that promote, necessitate, or reinforce good or ill behavior. The
purpose of public health ethics is to discuss the global health difficulties that many cultures
confront and the procedures that will be implemented to solve the ethical dilemma.
Case 2: Blood Donor Racial Profiling
Global socioeconomic and health inequities are racial. Inequality in health and poverty affects
races. In the present day, 99.9% of human DNA is shared by all people, regardless of physical or
physiological racial traits. Experts and governments worldwide have clearly outgrown the logical
taxonomy (Markle et al., 2014). Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice have
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