Ethical Issues In Health Care Essay
Ethical Issues in Health Care
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1. Determine two (2) specific ethical issues that General Electric (GE) Healthcare faced when implementing its strategy to introduce low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. Recommend two (2) actions that GE can take to resolve these ethical issues. It’s the role of the health organization to ensure they are offering quality services to the general public. In this case, General electric will be faced by some ethical issues as they implement the low cost diagnostic equipments. One of the major issues they will face is that the company will be caring for the general public and they will be showing their interest to the public of ensuring …show more content…
Medicine and health care were starting points, and politics and business followed. Now, more and more human activities are assessed from an ethical point of view: farming, animal breeding, technology, etc. Recently, I even came across a research project in "space ethics"! Since the 1970s, applied ethics has developed as a discipline with numerous sub-disciplines: medical ethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, research ethics, technology and ethics, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-ethics, politics and ethics, etc., each sub-discipline with its own conferences, journals and academic associations. In this case, general electric are compliant with the ethical considerations and they are doing it to ensure they are competitive enough in the market and they can offer the best services to the general public and the loyal clients.
3. Determine whether GE Healthcare has any responsibility in resolving the issue of a preference for male children in cultures where its diagnostic ultrasound products are sold. Recommend one (1) strategy that would enable GE Healthcare to balance its responsibility of continued growth and development with any ethical or moral concerns investors and human rights groups might have regarding the use of its equipment in controlling the birth rates of male children in some
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1. Determine two (2) specific ethical issues that General Electric (GE) Healthcare faced when implementing its strategy to introduce low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. Recommend two (2) actions that GE can take to resolve these ethical issues. It’s the role of the health organization to ensure they are offering quality services to the general public. In this case, General electric will be faced by some ethical issues as they implement the low cost diagnostic equipments. One of the major issues they will face is that the company will be caring for the general public and they will be showing their interest to the public of ensuring …show more content…
Medicine and health care were starting points, and politics and business followed. Now, more and more human activities are assessed from an ethical point of view: farming, animal breeding, technology, etc. Recently, I even came across a research project in "space ethics"! Since the 1970s, applied ethics has developed as a discipline with numerous sub-disciplines: medical ethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, research ethics, technology and ethics, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-ethics, politics and ethics, etc., each sub-discipline with its own conferences, journals and academic associations. In this case, general electric are compliant with the ethical considerations and they are doing it to ensure they are competitive enough in the market and they can offer the best services to the general public and the loyal clients.
3. Determine whether GE Healthcare has any responsibility in resolving the issue of a preference for male children in cultures where its diagnostic ultrasound products are sold. Recommend one (1) strategy that would enable GE Healthcare to balance its responsibility of continued growth and development with any ethical or moral concerns investors and human rights groups might have regarding the use of its equipment in controlling the birth rates of male children in some