Ethics In Epidemics Emergencies And Disasters

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241549343

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Ethics in Epidemics, Emergencies and Disasters by World Health Organization Pdf

In the face of recent pandemic threats (severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS], avian influenza A H5N1, pandemic influenza A H1N1, and the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak) and disasters in general, debate has arisen about the ethical basis of research, surveillance and patient care in such situations. Scholarship on the ethics of public health crises draws on various areas including clinical practice and research. It is important to keep in mind that emergencies and disasters are the result of interactions between hazards and community elements--including people's health--with differing vulnerability and capacity to cope with situations. The vulnerability, capacity, and overall resilience of countries and their systems, communities, and sub-populations define how well they will manage risks and determine the scale of an emergency. Emergencies and disasters can be due to natural (including epidemics, hydro, meteorological and geological) and human-induced (including technological hazards conflicts food insecurity and social unrest) causes. The requirements of the community for patient care and for research and surveillance vary case by case and are influenced by how risks are managed before during and after events and by the type and magnitude of the consequences of emergencies when they occur. The training manual has two parts: Part 1 covers ethical issues in research and surveillance--such as conflicts that might arise between the common good and individual autonomy, ethics oversight, and publication ethics. Part 2 covers patient care--including triage, standards of care, and the professional duties of health care workers in emergencies. The teaching resources are modular, comprising seven core competences and 26 learning objectives each with a dedicated module. The modules are based on various types of instruction and activities (e.g. case study, lecture, group discussion, role play, video) to meet the learning objective. Slide sets were prepared for the lectures under each learning objective and summary slide sets for each core competence. At the end of the manual you will find a compilation of all of the case studies used throughout the manual.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240006218

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Guidance for research ethics committees for rapid review of research during public health emergencies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Olusegun Afolabi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319927657

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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework by Michael Olusegun Afolabi Pdf

This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical, sociocultural, and policy-related issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics. These issues are elucidated under the conceptual rubric: Public health disasters (PHDs). The book defines PHDs as public health issues with devastating social consequences, the attendant public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters, and latent or low prevalence public health issues with the potential to rapidly acquire pandemic capacities. This notion is illustrated using Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks, atypical drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the health emergencies of earthquakes as focal points. Drawing on an approach that reckons with microbial, existential, and anthropological realities; the book develops a relational-based global ethical framework that can help address the local, anthropological, ecological, and transnational dynamics of the ethical issues engendered by public health disasters. The book also charts some of the critical roles that relevant local and transnational stakeholders may play in translating the proposed global ethical framework from the sphere of concept to the arena of action. This title is of immense benefit to bioethics scholars, public and global health policy experts, as well as graduate students working in the area of global health, public health ethics, and disaster bioethics.

Author : Daniel Messelken,David Winkler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367594250

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Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel by Daniel Messelken,David Winkler Pdf

This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic. Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports from recent military and NGO missions in the field. The authors of this volume focus on military medical ethics adding a distinct voice to the topic of epidemics and infectious diseases. While military health care personnel are always crucially involved during disaster relief operations and large-scale public health emergencies, most of the current literature treats ethical issues during epidemics from a more general perspective without taking into account the specifics of the military context. The contributions in this volume provide first-hand insights into some of the ethical issues encountered by military health care personnel in missions during the Ebola outbreak in 2014/2015. This practical perspective is complimented by academic analyses and theoretical reflections on ethical issues associated with epidemics. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, ethics and African politics.

Author : Daniel Messelken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 131558025X

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Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel by Daniel Messelken Pdf

This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic. Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports from recent military and NGO missions in the field. The authors of this volume focus on military medical ethics adding a distinct voice to the topic of epidemics and infectious diseases. While military health care personnel are always crucially involved during disaster relief operations and large-scale public health emergencies, most of the current literature treats ethical issues during epidemics from a more general perspective without taking into account the specifics of the military context. The contributions in this volume provide first-hand insights into some of the ethical issues encountered by military health care personnel in missions during the Ebola outbreak in 2014/2015. This practical perspective is complimented by academic analyses and theoretical reflections on ethical issues associated with epidemics. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, ethics and African politics.

Author : J. Eric Dietz,David R. Black
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781439857656

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Pandemic Planning by J. Eric Dietz,David R. Black Pdf

Preparedness and rigorous planning on community, state, and regional levels are critical to containing the threat of pandemic illness. Steeped in research and recommendations from lessons learned, Pandemic Planning describes the processes necessary for the efficient and effective preparation, prevention, response, and recovery from a pandemic threat. This evidence-based book guides plan development and provides solutions to common strategic, ethical, and practical challenges to pandemic preparedness. Topics discussed include: The current threat of pandemics and how they relate to homeland security and emergency management Leadership and incident management structure as they relate to pandemic preparedness Computer simulation models and data visualization for strengthening prevention and control measures within a community Marketing principles and how they promote pandemic preparedness for a community Lessons learned from pandemic influenza exercises conducted with regional hospitals and how those lessons can be applied to other institutions Government resources available to assist with the planning for and monitoring of a pandemic event Economic and logistic concerns that arise during a pandemic Discussing preparedness across a variety of institutional levels, the authors’ collaboration with national research leaders and community stakeholders has enabled them to assemble the most current and essential information available on pandemic preparedness. Their book distills this information into workable strategies to bolster public health, mitigate risk, and protect the population.

Author : Patricia Fronek,Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000540840

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Social Work in Health Emergencies by Patricia Fronek,Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares Pdf

This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible, international knowledge for practitioners, students and academics about social work in health emergencies and spans fields of practice across world regions with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into three sections: • Regional, Historical and Social Work Perspectives takes a journey through world regions during the first six months of the pandemic as it unfolded, explores the lessons found in the history of pandemics and situates public health social work practice in the values of the profession. Situating the diversity of challenges and opportunities in context, in turn, influences current and future social work practice. • Social Work Practice, Issues and Responses explores social work practice innovations and responses across eleven key practice fields. International authors feature social work responses during the COVID-19 health emergency from different regions of the world. • Preparing for the Future analyses broader concepts, innovations and the implications for future practices as social work enters a new era of service delivery. The 20 chapters explore the convergence of pandemic, politics and planet which is critiqued within a framework of the profession’s ethics and values of human dignity, human rights and social justice. Social work’s place in public health is firmly situated and built on the premise that the value social work brings to the table deserves recognition and should be documented to inform the development of the profession and future practice and how social work must carry lessons forward to prepare for the next pandemic. The book is relevant to a wide range of audiences, including practitioners, educators and students in social work, human services, international development and public health, as well as policy makers and researchers.

Author : Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Disaster medicine
ISBN : 0190270772

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Emergency Ethics by Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis Pdf

This edited volume brings together some of the leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a comprehensive ethical conception of emergency preparedness as a distinctive form of civic 'practice' brought about by the interrelationships and coordination of many groups, disciplines, and interests and drawing on numerous bodies of knowledge and expertise.

Author : Ben Wisner,John Adams
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241545419

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Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters by Ben Wisner,John Adams Pdf

Aimed at practitioners, policymakers and researchers, this volume distills knowledge of environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits.

Author : Robert J. Ursano,Carol S. Fullerton,Lars Weisaeth,Beverley Raphael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107138490

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Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry by Robert J. Ursano,Carol S. Fullerton,Lars Weisaeth,Beverley Raphael Pdf

This book presents a decade of advances in the psychological, biological and social responses to disasters, helping medics and leaders prepare and react.

Author : Drue H. Barrett,Leonard W. Ortmann,Angus Dawson,Carla Saenz,Andreas Reis,Gail Bolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319238469

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Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe by Drue H. Barrett,Leonard W. Ortmann,Angus Dawson,Carla Saenz,Andreas Reis,Gail Bolan Pdf

This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.

Author : Ron Iphofen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030167585

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Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity by Ron Iphofen Pdf

This handbook is a ‘one-stop shop’ for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity. It provides a comprehensive coverage of research and integrity issues, both within researchers’ ‘home’ discipline and in relation to similar concerns in other disciplines. The handbook covers common elements shared by disciplines and research professions, such as consent, privacy, data management, fraud, and plagiarism. The handbook also includes contributions and perspectives from academics from various disciplines, treating issues specific to their fields. Readers are able to quickly source the most comprehensive and up-to-date information, protagonists, issues and challenges in the field. Experienced researchers keen to assess their own perspectives, as well as novice researchers aiming to establish the field, will equally find the handbook of interest and practical benefit. It saves them a great deal of time in sourcing the disparate available material in these fields and it is the first ‘port of call’ for a wide range of researchers, research advisors, funding agencies and research reviewers.The most important feature is the handbook’s ability to provide practical advice and guidance to researchers in a wide range of disciplines and professions to help them ‘think through’ their approach to difficult questions related to the principles, values and standards they need to bring to their research practice.

Author : Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190270742

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Emergency Ethics by Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis Pdf

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a comprehensive ethical conception of emergency preparedness as a distinctive form of civic practice brought about by the interrelationships and coordination of many groups, disciplines, and interests and drawing on numerous bodies of knowledge and expertise. It addresses particular aspects of preparedness and response plans, particular decisions that planners and communities have to make, decisions that require balancing many diverse and sometimes conflicting values and identifying and applying a framework of basic ethical principles for preparedness planning, emergency response, and post-disaster recovery. It also explores the relationship between emergency preparedness to other facets of public health practice. The book begins with a broad and synthetic overview of emergency ethics that addresses the central components and ethically significant issues arising in public health preparedness planning, disaster response, and recovery. Following that overview are five chapters that in a philosophically innovative and detailed way delve deeply into important and problematic issues in emergency planning and response, including the allocation of scarce resources, conducting ethical research in the context of public health emergencies, the obligations of public health professionals, communication and engagement with the public, and special moral obligations surrounding vulnerable populations.

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190613327

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Humanitarian Ethics by Hugo Slim Pdf

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.

Author : Dónal P. O’Mathúna,Bert Gordijn,Mike Clarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400738645

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Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal by Dónal P. O’Mathúna,Bert Gordijn,Mike Clarke Pdf

This book provides an early exploration of the new field of disaster bioethics: examining the ethical issues raised by disasters. Healthcare ethics issues are addressed in the first part of this book. Large-scale casualties lead to decisions about who to treat and who to leave behind, cultural challenges, and communication ethics. The second part focuses on disaster research ethics. With the growing awareness of the need for evidence to guide disaster preparedness and response, more research is being conducted in disasters. Any research involving humans raises ethical questions and requires appropriate regulation and oversight. The authors explore how disaster research can take account of survivors? vulnerability, informed consent, the sudden onset of disasters, and other ethical issues. Both parts examine ethical challenges where seeking to do good, harm can be done. Faced with overwhelming needs and scarce resources, no good solution may be apparent. But choosing the less wrong option can have a high price. In addition, what might seem right at home may not be seen to be right elsewhere. This book provides in-depth and practical reflection on these and other challenging ethical questions arising during disasters. Scholars and practitioners who gathered at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland in 2011 offer their reflections to promote further dialogue so that those devastated by disasters are respected by being treated in the most ethically soun d ways possible.