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Health Promotion Ch5
Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Applied Ethics | Uses moral philosophy to formulate theories guiding actions |
| Moral Philosophy | Concerned with what is right or wrong |
| Value theories | Results from philosophical inquiry about good action |
| Descriptive theories | Concerned what humans seem to value, does not tell us what we ought to do |
| Normative Theories | Proposes what people ought to value, concerned with good actions |
| Metaethics | Evaluates theories/ perspectives for congruence and usefulness in decision making across environments |
| Advocacy | Defined as aggressive action taken on behalf of an individual or group to protect or secure that individual/group rights |
| Issues | Ethical problems in which a choice must be made |
| Dilemmas | Situations in which a choice must be made between two or more equally undesirable options |
| Preventative Ethics | Aims to interrupt potential ethical problems before they develop |
| Ethical Principles | Provides a starting point |
| Autonomy | An individual's freedom of action; the foundation of confidentiality |
| Self-determination | Based on the human capacity for reason and thus self- governance; can make their own decisions |
| Informed Consent | Involves ensuring that a person has all of the info necessary to come to a decision |
| Proxy decision making | Someone else make the decision (e.g., judge) |
| Confidentiality | People have the right to decide who shall have access to information about them |
| Privacy Rule | Developed by HIPAA, ensure that health info is properly protected while allowing flow of info needed to provide care |
| Veracity | Devotion to the truth; knowledge of patient beliefs, values, and lifestyle preferences are essential |
| Nonmaleficence | Enjoins people not to harm other people; harm may be intentional or unintentional |
| Beneficence | Quality or state of doing/ producing good; may involve rules that are designed to protect people against the negative effects of their own actions |
| Paternalism | Interference of a state or individual with another person, justified by the claim that the person will be better off/ protected from harm |
| Social Justice | Systems existing within a society that determine the distribution of goods and services |
| Justice Based on Deserving | Those more worthy of merit/ who contribute more deserve better social benefits |
| Justice Based on Fairness | Benefits are equalized across society regardless of merit |
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