Ethics and Equity
A formal document outlining guiding principles, core values, and behavioral standards intended to promote honesty, integrity, and accountability within an organization or profession.
What is Code of Ethics?
The obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks. People in similar circumstances must be treated similarly, and receive what is due, deserved, or can legitimately be claimed.
What is Justice?
These are the three branches of the US Federal Government.
What are Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
The number of Social Determinants of Health (using our in-class definition).
What is Five?
An advisory body whose purpose is to facilitate discussion and consultation on ethical issues arising in the patient care setting.
What is an Ethics Committee?
The voluntary agreement by a person who possesses sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent choice to allow examination, treatment, testing, or otherwise engage in therapeutic activities.
What is Patient Consent?
The laws that control relationships
between individuals.
What is Private Law?
Social and Community Context, Healthcare Access and Quality, Economic Stability, Education Access and Quality, and Neighborhood and Built Environment.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
A complex decision-making situation where a choice has to be made in which something good has to be given up or something bad has to be suffered no matter what is chosen.
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
Including but not limited to: the right to be treated with consideration and respect; to receive a clear explanation of tests, diagnoses, prescribed medications, prognoses, and treatment options; the right to privacy and access to their medical records; the right to know their rights; the right to ask questions; the right to complain, and the right to emergency care.
What are Patient Rights?
The laws that control relationships
between individuals and the government.
What is Public Law?
The right or condition of self-government (e.g., to make personal medical decisions).
What is Autonomy?
True or False: Equity and Equality are the same thing.
What is False? While equality focuses on sameness, equity aims for equal outcomes.
Mistreatment or neglect of individuals who are under the care of a healthcare organization. Occurs to those who are most vulnerable and dependent on others for care.
What is Patient Abuse?
These include enacting laws, enforcing laws, adjudicating laws, and regulating laws. Broad examples include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Public Health Service, and the Administration on Aging.
What are the four roles of the government and its agencies?
A core principle of the Belmont Report that obligates researchers to secure the well-being of subjects by maximizing potential benefits while minimizing risks. Researchers must carefully balance risks against potential benefits.
What is Beneficence?
Systemic, unfair differences due to socioeconomic
and policy barriers (e.g., lack of healthcare access in low-income areas).
What are Health Inequities?
Including but not limited to: maintaining a healthy lifestyle; keeping appointments; maintaining current medication records; accurately describing symptoms; and providing a full and honest disclosure of medical history.
What are Patient Responsibilities?
The principle asserting that no single branch of government is clearly dominant over the other two; however, in the exercise of its functions, each may affect and limit the activities, functions, and powers of the others.
What is Separation of Powers?
The measurable differences in health outcomes or access to care between population groups.
What are Health Disparities?