This course addresses the confidentiality regulations, legislative amendments, and public policy in the public health arena. This course further analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care from a global perspective.
Students learn to develop important competencies applying a comparative, or multicultural approach, the course compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, spirituality, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, technological health advances, the right to health care, examination of issues surrounding limited resources, and health system reform.
- Teacher: Carrington Belle