Ethics

Public health ethics is about professionalisms ethical dimensions and the societys moral trust on professionals in public health to perform their duties for the common good. This kind inculcates a sense of duty and trust by the public in professionals. These ethics help practitioners to act in virtuousness while undertaking their respective duties. Professionals in public health do not have an ethical code, probably because of the existence of several different disciplines rather than a single public-health profession. In fact, some disciplines related to public health like epidemiologists do have their own ethical codes. Ethics in public health service delivery should be every physicians duty.

The United States government has the duty to provide health-care for all citizens. The United States Constitution also has implications on the governments involvement in public health as most health-care services are performed by and the local state governments. The federal governments performs its functions in public health through the regulatory and non-regulatory agencies and shapes public health operations through funding and de-funding. For instance, the Public Health Service Act states that the Secretary may accept assistance from local authorities or State the Secretary has an obligation to assist states as well as their sub-divisions in preventing and suppressing communicable diseases besides advising them on public-health preservation-and-improvement-related matters. Legislatures can also give government agencies the authority to make regulations which carry the same weight as statutes these regulations enable the agencies to act in response to new challenges as they are easier and faster to promulgate and amend than statutes. The agencies are, however, required to involve the public in the rule-making. The agencies make decisions in individual case hearings called adjudications. Courts of law also make laws while ruling on cases related to public health, with lower courts being required to follow higher courts decisions. The state courts review states laws in order to determine whether they violate states or federal constitutions, while the federal courts the states and federal laws constitutionality. The Supreme Courts decisions bind all the state and federal laws.

At the A.T. Still University, every student is encouraged to take part in a wellness program, to study psychology, nutrition, problem-based scholarship, and be involved in various co-curricular activities that make them enjoy and be productive living and productivity.  The whole person approach starts with belief in body, mind, spirit interaction, and understanding how to treat them holistically. Whole person care is integrated in every program, be it audiology or dentistry, family practice or public health, integrates the principles of into its curriculum.

Osteopathic medicine was developed by HYPERLINK httpwww.atsu.eduaboutour_founder.htmAndrew Taylor Still,  in 1874, after he became dissatisfied with the healthcare of his time Dr. Still founded a medicine philosophy based on ideas dating back to the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, and which centers on the bodys unity. He pioneered the wellness concept, with musculoskeletal systems being one of healths key elements. The HYPERLINK httpwww.atsu.eduaboutwhole_person_healthcare.htmwhole person approach is taken by osteopathic physicianscaring for patients. Instead of treating specific symptoms or illnesses, they regard the body as an integrated whole. Today, the physicians are among healthcare providers fastest growing segment and are on modern medicines cutting-edge, combining compassion with technology and the ability to wholly treat patients.

Conclusion
Professionals in public health regularly face these or similar dilemmas that could easily be informed by studying ethics. Regarding the dilemmas occurring daily public health practice, it is important to draw the line between persuasion and propaganda when learning and teaching about ethics.