Pros And Cons Of Public Health Ethics

Public health is different than the clinical nature of medicine (Callahan & Jennings, 2002). While there is a greater push for the understanding of public health ethics for the betterment of the population, health care professionals cannot forget their main focus of “do no harm” to the patient. Public health ethics is a fairly new idea (Williams & Torrens, 2008). The pros to my new idea of better education and training would be to provide insight to the health care professionals that they have not been exposed to in the past. By educating them, they can pass the initiatives on to other coworkers to provide more exposure for public health ethics. This will allow for professions to address the complex ideals behind public health ethics.