Thinking as health care practitioners, n your opinion should Mr. Speaker’s autonomy as a person have taken precedence over the CDC’s desire to enforce public health law?

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Ethics Case Analysis

Read the Unit 4 Ethics Case and answer the questions associated with the scenario. At least two (2) peer-reviewed sources other than the textbook must be used to support your opinion. List and cite your references. Your analysis should be at least 2 pages in length, in addition to a title and a reference page. APA formatting is required.

Scenario

Two principles are often at odds when healthcare practitioners must deal with health issues: The autonomy of each patient and beneficence. Autonomy refers to the individual’s right to make his or her own decisions. Beneficence refers to the moral obligating to act in ways that promote the health and welfare of others. As stated in Merman’s Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information, “Beneficence and the closely allied principle of nonmaleficence (first do no harm) are among the primary justification supporting public policies that interfere with the autonomy of individuals.”

Ethics Issue:

Andre Speaker, a personal injury attorney flew via public transportation from Atlanta, Georgia to Paris to get married. Speaker was thought to have an extremely contagious and untreatable form of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. Upon Speaker’s return to the Universe State, the Centers for Disease Control used provision of the Public Health Service Act to involuntarily hospitalize and desolate him. Speaker’s diagnosis was later corrected. He had a treatable form of tuberculosis. At least nine individual who were passengers on the flights Speaker took later filed civil suits against him for knowingly exposing them to the disease.

Thinking as health care practitioners, n your opinion should Mr. Speaker’s autonomy as a person have taken precedence over the CDC’s desire to enforce public health law? Explain you answer.

In your opinion, did the CDC act ethically in involuntarily quarantine Mr. Speaker? Explain you answer.

Support your answers with facts/sources of reference.

Submitting your Assignment

Put your responses in a Word document.

Must every small town or borough have its own HVA?

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1. Drawing on your current knowledge of an HVA, explain why a county assessment might be different from a city / borough one.

You will find this one-page article very helpful. http://www.med.uottawa.ca/sim/data/injury_preventi…

Although not required, you may find this article helpful in the application of the matrix. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12575…

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Q2. Must every small town or borough have its own HVA? Why or why not?

Even though this should not be a must, we all know that disasters are local. For this reason it is important for emergency planners to keep in mind that every plan should match the needs of our local community (Perry and Lindell, 2007). Furthermore, conducting a HVA at a regional or state level may avoid the waste of time and resources which might be required to sustain the assessments at county, or local levels. However, the down side of such approach is that planners might not relevant information related to local community. Realities at regional level might not be seen or experienced from the same perspective at local level. It is therefore necessary for us to seize up the situation based on the local realities. Besides, assessments conducted at different levels will not represent the same distribution of population or their exposure to potential existing threats. In other words, the local realities and the context might be quite different from those addressed at state level. The county plan needs to be as specific as possible with measures addressing realities inherent to the town. Besides, as plans are living document that can be updated regularly, it is important to start at least with the initial HVA a local (county/Town) level. Then, when this times comes for some revisions in, planner will not need to look for local details as for the initial assessment.

Furthermore, conducting a HVA a local level allow the best involvement of the local communities in the planning process. Interaction between planners, departments, personals and representatives of the different organizations throughout the planning process is a great opportunity for people to know each other, to buy-in and convey their different point of views about local opportunities and challenge that may arise during emergency response. Involving local community in the planning is a proven instrument for more sustainable output and multiplies the rate of successful realization of development by people because it is more likely to produce a set of outcomes actually desired by the community (Kaur, 2007). The HVA is a way to know the local capabilities to that can be included in the plan. For this reason, assessing a town or county may help to discover neighborhood associations and civic organizations which can contribute to build up local resources that will be useful during recovery phase. These groups are made of active citizens who can become important voices in local government, they provide a basis for policy formulation etc. They can also pass along official messages to friend and neighbors, and they can also act as pools of volunteers in support to emergency response and recovery processes.

In sum, allowing the city to proceed with its own HVA and can open opportunity for consultation with people interested in, or affected by the project to offer their point of view before a decision is made.

The Society for Public Health Education

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I need one to two pages essay about this organization, The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), and I have already gathered the necessary information

About SOPHE:

1.  Found in 1950

2.  Governed by a House of Delegates

3.  Comprised of one delegate from each of its chapters

·  Goals and Missions:

1.  Responding to the needs of its members

2.  Delivering quality products and services

3.  Demonstrating integrity, accountability and transparency

4.  Promoting teamwork and collaboration

5.  Embracing diversity

6.  Respecting organizational tradition while encouraging innovation

·  Structures and Public Benefits:

Ø  The Society for Public Health Education provides global leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion and to promote the health of society

I need one to two pages essay about this organization, The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), and I have already gathered the necessary information

About SOPHE:

1.  Found in 1950

2.  Governed by a House of Delegates

3.  Comprised of one delegate from each of its chapters

·  Goals and Missions:

1.  Responding to the needs of its members

2.  Delivering quality products and services

3.  Demonstrating integrity, accountability and transparency

4.  Promoting teamwork and collaboration

5.  Embracing diversity

6.  Respecting organizational tradition while encouraging innovation

·  Structures and Public Benefits:

Ø  The Society for Public Health Education provides global leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion and to promote the health of society

How do these tools and data help health professionals and the public?

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Task 1: Review the following sites.

– FluView http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Click on the first selection to view the ILI & viral surveillance application. Read the disclaimer and check OK. From the next page, review the data for flu test results and influenza-like illness (ILI). In the lower right hand corner under ‘Stacked Column Chart – WHO NREVSS’ select the download data function. Open the CSV data in Excel. See if you can reproduce the stacked column chart in Excel.

HealthMap www.healthmap.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Go to this site and type in “Zika virus” to see what is going on in the United States. Type in your zip code and check if there any disease alerts near you. You can also download this as an app for your iPhone, iPad or Android.

Much of public health informatics involves the application of disease surveillance and monitoring systems. These systems collect and provide data for epidemiologists, biostatisticians and other public health professionals to analyze to get a better picture of public health status. Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. is a collaborative of local, state, territorial, national and private partners that provides up-to-date resources and information for public health professionals. There is a list of many of the widely used surveillance systems, databases, reports and tools in the field compiled by the collaborative. Browse several of the links in each subheading (Tools for Data Collection and Planning, GIS, etc.).

Task 2: create a post with the subject line, “Public Health Data Tools”

Choose one of the resources and write a short paragraph (5-7 sentences) introducing the data tool/resource and explain why it is significant. Also answer the following questions.

  1. How do these tools and data help health professionals and the public?
  2. What do we gain from analyzing this data?
  3. What if we didn’t have these tools available today?