Question

Examine the ethical concerns related to population health.

Choose a major ethical issue in global health and provide an analysis of the issue.

Why is the issue an ethical issue?

What steps can you propose for avoiding or resolving the issue?

Answer 1

Answer: There are various challenges regarding the ethical concern related to the population. Some of the challenges includes ageing process, treatment, disease prevention etc. In some of the cases, the actions that are required to prevent health of public creates an ethical issue.

One of the major ethical issue is the disagreement of the people/ family with the treatment method of the healthcare providers. This is one of the major ethical issues because most of the time family of the patient or the client doesn't agree to the treatment to be provided to them. There are conflict in many of the time and hence chances of the ethical issues arises.

We can take example of the vaccination. Most of the parents are not ready to get their child vaccinated. This is because they feel fear or have assumptions that vaccine causes more harm than benefit. Hence it becomes important to deal with certain kind of ethical challenges.

There could be several steps taken to prevent this issues. Some of them are:

• Providing education to the family and patient.
• Encouraging them to follow the instructions of the healthcare professionals.
• Providing autonomy to the patient.