Question

.How would you personally balance individual liberty, the common good, and social justice in public health?

Answer 1

Public health: Public health is defined as a science or a theory protecting and improving health of people and communities, by promoting healthy lifestyles, prevention of many diseases and injuries, detecting or prevention or responding to many diseases and researching on various diseases.

• Today, Public health is more important to the society because society faces a lot of threats from many emerging and acquiring infectious diseases and also threat of bioterrorism, vaccination rates are declining and increasing antimicrobial resistance.
• Public health regulation is designed to monitor major and variety of health threats to reduce the harm or risks within the population.
• Public health regulations considers fundamental civil liberties and individual liberty such as privacy, freedom of movements, religion, associations.
• However, there are differences between individual and collective interests. In my opinion The public health adopts a prevention, orientation and views health from population, rather than individual considerations, it involves potential trade-offs synergies between individual interests, civil liberties and collective or common goods.
• A commitment to social justice is guided by public health decision makers with the principle of individual autonomy.
• When public health measures are designed to protect the civil Rights and individual liberties, more likely to benefit from the cooperation of the community and earned from community and persons too, A constellation of individual rights supported but autonomy for example, confidentiality, informed consent and liberty.
• According to the public health regulation I would personally balance the individual liberty with the help of common good and social justice. Individual liberty is most difficult change for the population as well, exercising and food changes and lifestyle changes are acquired by individual liberty. So I would personally balance the individual liberty first with the common good and social justice next.