Public health policy
and actions are influenced by individual and organizational values and
principles.
More and more organizations and their members are making critical decisions
which affect the lives of others based on past ethical study and practices.
Environmental Health professionals—from Supervisors to front line Workers—are
relying on the ethical problems encountered—and solved from history, best
practices and proven processes to help them develop efficient solutions to
public health cases. As public health and environmental health professionals, in management and non-management positions, you are faced with making critical decisions daily. Whether demonstrating sound judgment based on known and expected outcomes, utilizing best practices within the industry, or relying upon expected (but unproven) results, you use critical skills to ensure success within the field.
This lecture and round-table discussion provides a brief overview of past cases within the (public) health field that showed the impacts of ethics (some questionable) during decision-making. We will also discuss ethics in the military and civilian public health and environmental health areas. Finally there will be an opportunity for the audience members to discuss successful and not-so-successful displays of ethics during their current or past engagements within their Public Health and Environmental Health areas.
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