Question

Responsibility of the individual vs. the public is a major ethics concern in dealing with epidemics. How do public health actions in an epidemic create conflicts between autonomy and the greater good? 2. Consider the stewardship model of public health. 3. When two Americans contracted Ebola. While they were in an Ebola-infected country, they were treated with trial medicines. This action saves their lives, but introduced ethical concerns, present an ethics argument for using these drugs and include the ethics of using these drugs for two Americans and not others.

Answer 1

As per Stewards model, promoting health through different programs, advice and information’s helps in achieving behavior changes. Proper awareness must be given to individual like changes in social and physical activity can lead to healthy life. People must be ensured with proper health services with no inequality. In Stewards model, Tobacco, Alcohol, infectious disease etc. were considered as public health issues.Two American were tried with a serum which was a trial medicine to cure Ebola.Since there were no proved medicine for the cure.The physicians who were in care of this patients took a risk-care decision.Here the risk was less than the potiential benefit.Ebola effected country has large number of cases reported so this was the safest option as number of people being effected was less and the risk factor also was less.