Disease Control Measures and Ethics

 

Is Quarantine Consistent with Ethical Principles?

Your readings cover ethical principles. After reading the Week 2 Content section-Ethics of Quarantine, analyze the ethics of public health issues by discussing whether the use of quarantine in a given situation is consistent with ethical principles.

Your response must include the following:

1) What are some ethical principles that should be considered?

2) Of the ones that you have researched, select one and explain why that principle is important to medical and public health officials. 

3) What are some issues that may arise if these principles are not applied when implementing quarantine?

Most be at least 250 words  and supported by at least two references