Palomar College General Moral Considerations Essay

Overview-

Public health ethics rests upon a set of general moral considerations (GMC’s) that have been widely discussed in literature, and utilized in the practice of public health decision-making. Your text identifies nine GMC’s; however, goes into detail about the first five- producing benefits; avoiding, preventing, and removing harms; utility; distributive justice/procedural justice; and respect of autonomous choices and actions.

Instructions-

For this assignment, you are to explore the ethical issue/dilemma you chose from Supportive Submission 1, then complete the following:

1. Discuss how each of the five GMC’s listed above may or may not apply.

2. Identify any current and/or future political, legal or economic challenges as they relate to the ethics of public health practice and/or health care delivery.

3. Hypothesize potential solutions to the ethical challenges through utilization of appropriate GMC’s.

This assignment is expected to be 3 pages at minimum.

Reference: Bernheim, Childress, Melnick, & Bonnie. (2013). Essentials of public health ethics. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

ISBN-13: 978-0763780463, ISBN-10: 0763780464 and the attached essay.