As a public health professional, you may be in a position to make difficult ethical choices to prevent or control infectious disease outbreaks in the population. The assigned readings and media for this week highlight the many dimensions of this problem including mandatory vaccination of children and health workers, and the imposition of quarantines.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0301
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2499701
• What are the salient ethical issues common to these situations?
• How would you protect individual rights during an actual or potential epidemic?
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