Health zones in Oregon: Exploring an ethical deliberation process in county public health
Autor: | P. Mason, Kevin M. Dirksen, D. Emerick, S.D. Present |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health Geographic information system business.industry Process (engineering) Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Public health Advisory committee Ethical awareness Public relations Deliberation Administrative division 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine State (polity) Political science medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business media_common |
Zdroj: | Ethics, Medicine and Public Health. 4:35-42 |
ISSN: | 2352-5525 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jemep.2018.01.008 |
Popis: | Summary Clackamas County, an administrative division in the State of Oregon on the west coast of the United States, has provided training in ethics and a decision-making framework to members of its public health advisory committee in an attempt to develop an ethical deliberation mechanism in public health. The goal of this mechanism is to ensure that a process exists for the Public Health Division to review value-laden issues relating to policies impacting the community. By providing guidance to county public health leadership upon request through an open and transparent review process, the intended outcome is a culture of ethical awareness and high ethical standards. The first deliberation of this body addressed the ethical concerns relating to the implementation of mapped “public health zones”: a project intended to more effectively communicate public health data of communities within the county in smaller geographic units and using geographic information system (GIS) technology. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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