Section: Module 7: Lesson 2: Ethical Issues in Pandemic Response | Pandemic Etiology, Preparedness, and Response | NextGenU.org
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Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:Student Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the ethical dilemmas and tensions that healthcare systems and workers experience in balancing individual patient treatment and protecting population health during pandemics.
- Discuss the ethical issues that governments and international agencies must consider in developing and implementing pandemic response and control measures and interventions.
- Examine the ethical considerations that govern the approaches used by governments and healthcare systems to allocate scarce resources during a pandemic.
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Students mustMark as done
Required Learning Resources and Activities
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (33 minutes)
Springer Nature
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Students mustView
Read the content under the headings "7. Obligations related to medical interventions for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious disease" on pages 28-29 and "9. Emergency Use of Unproven Interventions Outside of Research" on pages 35-37. (12 minutes)
WHO
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (8 minutes)
Elsevier
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Students mustView
Read the content from under the heading "Research" on pages 4-7. (8 minutes)
PAHO
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Students mustView
Read the content under the headings "Abstract" and "Responsibility of governments: balancing individual rights and the collective good." (10 minutes)
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Students mustView
Read from the heading "3. What is the basis for deciding who should have priority access to scarce resources?" to the end of the page. (10 minutes)
WHO
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Quiz: Module 7
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TO PASS THIS QUIZ YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%.
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Students mustMark as done
Recommended Additional Readings
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (24 minutes)
NCBI
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Students mustView
Read the entire document. (4 minutes)
PAHO
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Students mustView
Read the content from the heading "II. Use of existing research repositories for public health activities" until the heading " V. Conclusion." (17 minutes)
Oxford Academy
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "Ethical Values for Rationing Health Resources in a Pandemic", "Who Gets Health Resources in a Covid-19 Pandemic?", "Implementing Rationing Policies", and "Conclusions". (15 minutes)
The England Journal of Medicine
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "Introduction", "Results", and "Conclusions". (20 minutes)
US National Library of Medicine