Deck 13: Public Health and Ethics

Question 1

Public health's role in increasing the community's access to quality care is based on its roots in ______.
A) social justice

A) utilitarianism
B) beneficence
B) deontology
C) ethical egoism

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What explains much of the increase in life expectancy from 1900 to 2016?

A) increased use of technology
B) public health actions and laws
C) better management of hospitals
D) consumer health awareness

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Public health had unique ethics challenges for public health because of its mission. This mission includes efforts to _____.

A) treat individual patients
B) prevent disease
C) work with populations.
D) b and c

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Well-being is morally important in people should be able to have it. This statement is an example of _____.

A) nonmaleficence
B) capability theory
C) paternalism.
D) social beneficence