In this article Stacy Carter (2014) argues that the ‘most pressing’ issue regarding ethics in health promotion is deciding how to promote good health in communities in a way that both engages with and allocates responsibility to citizens and the state. She highlights the similarities and differences in ethical requirements...

The issue of informed consent is one of the most prevalent ethical problems within the healthcare industry today. The world of healthcare is very fast paced and often times, patients are in and out of a doctor's office within minutes. The patient may be unaware of their diagnosis or uninformed...

Ethics in health care have a long history. The emergence of bioethics for instance came into be after the Second World War and was triggered by a confluence of factors. Today, ethical issues continue to influence public health. Despite the formulation of professional code of ethics in public health, the...

ABSTRACT In the interest of protecting the public from infectious diseases, as well as the workers that come into contact with infected persons, isolation and quarantine procedures and policies are established and managed. Infectious and communicable diseases have ethical, legal, and political implications both historically and currently, including domestic and...

Introduction This assignment seeks to explore the ethical issues that may present to the DNP-nurse in theory and compare these to experiences from practice to date. The work of a nurse is constantly influenced by ethical dilemmas, when considering the best interest of the patient (Milton 2010). The focus in...