Ethics in Public Health for
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Ethics in Public Health: Guidelines for Thailand, Slides of Biotechnology
The need for defined ethics guidelines in public health practices in thailand. It highlights the gaps in current ethics frameworks and proposes the development of an ethics framework and code of professional conduct for public health professionals. The document also suggests creating a book and training material on an ethics framework for public health in the thai context.
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Ethics in Public Health for
Thailand
Objectives:
- That public health practices in Thailand need a defined ethics guidelines
- To propose what is needed
- To find partners in such development
The three basic principles of biomedical
ethics*:
- Respect for persons
- Individual liberty, autonomy, and privacy,
- Beneficence
- Do no harm
- Justice
These principles do not lend themselves easily to public health practice. *The Belmont Report, 1979
What needs to be developed:
- An ethics framework for public health, and the code of public health professional
- Not merely a code of professional ethics, addressing general normsand expectations of professional behavior.
- “Rather, this is an analytic tool, designed to help public health professional consider the ethics implications of proposed interventions, policy proposals, research initiatives and programs.” (Kass, 2001)
- The ethics framework and code:
- Accepted and adopted in regular practice
- Taught in institutions in
- professional degree programs,
- certificate programs, and
- settings of continuing professional education.