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Article: Health workers face ethical challenges.(JOURNAL WATCH: Highlights from the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health)(Clinical report)
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- The Nation's Health
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- March 1, 2009
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Public health workers face a range of ethical challenges in their day-today work, according to a study in the February issue of APHA's American Journal of Public Health.
Conducted by University of Michigan researchers, the study found that public health workers deal with five main categories of ethical issues: using public health authority, allocating resources, negotiating political interference, ensuring standards of care and questioning the role of public health. For example, some of the health workers in the study reported struggling with whether health standards are so stringent they would force a business to close, who receives vaccinations first during an ...