Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast
Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast is a monthly satellite broadcast series on new and emerging public health issues. It is sponsored by the School of Public Health, the NYS Department of Health, the NYS Community Health Partnership, the NYS Association of County Health Officials, and the NYS Nurses Association.
Ethics in Public Health
Satellite broadcast originally aired November, 2002
- Videotape available through Public Health Foundation
- Now available via videostreaming through funding from the New York-New Jersey Public Health Training Center (This requires a “Real Media” player, which you can download free.)
- Apply for Continuing Education Credits
- Handouts
Public health professionals have to deal with many dilemmas due to their varied, and sometimes conflicting, roles as government officials, health professionals, and advocates for human health and justice. Lawrence Gastin discusses the challenges and dilemmas faced by public health professionals in two realms: public health and ethics.
Ethics in public health is concerned not so much with the character of professionals as with the ethical dimensions of the public health enterprise itself. Here, we think about decision making in creating and implementing public health policy. This kind of “applied” ethics is situation or case oriented, seeking to understand morally appropriate decisions in concrete cases. It requires thought about the potential conflicts between civil liberties and property rights on the one hand and prevention and emergency preparedness on the other.
Objectives
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:
- describe at least two ethical challenges faced by public health professionals in their varied roles as government officials, health professionals, and advocates for human helth and justice.
Continuing Education
This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 1.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 5TLL8T-PRV-04-004.
The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive up to xx Category I CECH in health education.
For further information, contact theSchool of Public Health via e-mail and include "t2b2" in subject line. coned@albany.edu
Last update: Nov. 18, 2004
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