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Guidelines for the Hospital Setting

Infections that become severe end up in the hospital.

The number of patients can quickly overwhelm the systems and resources.

Extremely difficult choices must be made, including healthcare workers walking knowingly into a risky environment.

Select a common ethical issue to see recommendations for ethical action:

 



What is Pandemic Ethics?

A pandemic is pervasive in scope and touches virtually every human-made system. In this dashboard, we focus on ethics in a government’s or an employer’s actions in a pandemic.

Public health ethics addresses the relationship between those governing or administrating and the population or employees they serve. They are best summarized by the Public Health Code of Ethics of the American Public Health Association.

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