Study Group - Ethics Flashcards
What are the 8 areas of responsibility for HES?
- Assessment & capacity
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation & research
- Advocacy
- Communication
- Leadership & managment
- Ethics & professionalism
What are ethics?
Principles or rules that provide guidance for behaviors that may be classified as right or wrong
What code of ethics do HES follow?
Unified Code of Ethics approved by CNHEO
What does HES code of ethics tell others?
Tells the public what they should expect from the practitioner/HES
What does CNHEO stand for?
Coalition of National Health Education Organizations
What are ethical dilemmas?
Issues with 2 sides that involve a judgement of right or wrong
What responsibilities are include in The Cod of Ethics HES must follow?
- Responsibility to the public
- Responsibility to the profession
- Responsibility to Employers
- Responsibility in delivery of health education/promotion
- Responsibility in research & evaluation
- Responsibility in professional preparation & continuing education
Ethical frameworks that are applied in planning programs
- Autonomy
- Criticality
- Egalitarian
- Needs based
- Resource sensitivity
- Utilitarian
Ethical principles in program planning/implementation
- Using most recent data and/or theories
- Using best evidence-based practices
Ethical principles in program Evaluation/Research
- IRB consultation to review research
What are the participant responsibilities of HES?
- Respect for autonomy
- Promotion of social justice
- Active promotion for good & avoidance of harm
What is IRB responsible for?
- Upholding integrity & ethics of the profession
- Approve, monitor, & review research/evaluation involving humans
- Performs oversight functions that are scientific, ethical, & regulatory
What does IRB support?
Worth, dignity, potential, & uniqueness of all people
What is IRB also known as?
Independent ethics committee
What does the Belmont Report summarize?
Ethical principles & guidelines for protection of human subjects
What are the 3 basic ethical principles in the Belmont Report?
- Respect for persons
- Beneficence
- Justice
HES responsibility in research & evaluation
- Ensure participation is voluntary utilizing informed consent
- Follow IRB protocols
- Respect privacy, rights, & dignity of participants
- All information is confidential
- Take credit for only work they have done
- Report results of research/evaluation objectively, accurately, & in timely manner
- Promote & disseminate results via appropriate formats
- Foster translation of research into practice
What is informed consent?
- Allows participants to choose what will/won’t happen to them
- Indicates their choice of participation
What is included on informed consent form?
- Nature & purpose of program
- Any risks/dangers due to program
- Any possible discomfort they may experience due to program
- Expected benefits of program
- Alternative programs/procedures with same results
- Option of discontinuing participation at any time
What does HIPPA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
What is offered under HIPPA law?
Rules/regulations on data privacy, integrity, & availability
Why is there a HIPPA section on informed consent forms?
- Allows HES/researchers to use participant data
- Provides what types of personal identifiers or PHI is collected, how it is protected, & who has access
What does PHI stand for?
Personal health information
What are some types of research misconduct?
- Plagiarism - using other people’s work without giving them credit
- Fabrication - making up results & reporting them
- Falsification - Changing/omitting data or manipulating results
What are things that must be considered & outlined during research/program planning stage to avoid ethical violations?
- Data analysis/level of significance
- Authorship
- How to present findings
What is salami publishing?
- Publishing data incrementally using the least amount of data to generate peer-reviewed publication
- Can fragment literature & compromise legitimacy of significance
What are some ethical guidelines to consider when working with organizations?
- Do no harm
- Follow HIPPA guidelines
- Avoid conflicts of interest
- Do not act in official capacity as an advocate
- Do not go beyond own expertise/qualifications
- Respect others
- Ensure informed consent is followed
- Maintain competence in field of practice
- Represent accurate potential services & outcomes
What does CNHEO state are responsibilities of HES?
- Promote, maintain, & improve individual, family, & community health
- Support actions & social policies that support/facilitate best balance of benefits over harm
Who can advocate and/or participate in lobbying efforts?
- HES can participate in certain advocacy efforts while on “company time”
- Many organizations will not allow lobbying
- Private citizens can participate at any level of advocacy or lobbying
How to Reduce Risk of Legal Liability
- Ensure informed consent is followed
- Maintain privacy of participants’ PHI
- Choose certified instructors to teach classes
- Provide written guidelines for emergency medical procedures for participants
- Have participants be cleared by doctor prior to modifying diet or doing strenuous exercise
- Make sure buildings/facilities are complying with building codes & are regularly maintained
What is negligence?
Failure to act in careful or reasonable manner
How does negligence occur?
Omission - not doing something that should have been done
Commission - doing something that should not have been done
Can gov’t employees advocate? Why or why not?
No - it may appear federal or state agencies have biases
Can HES/researchers advocate? Why or why not?
Yes & no - can provide education/data on topic of interest & information to local community for their advocacy efforts
Can nonprofit employees advocate? Why or why not?
Yes but must follow agency rules/regulations that comply with IRS
How does Healthy People 2030 define health equity?
Achievement of highest level of health for everyone
What are health inequities?
Differences in health due to social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantages or injustices
What are barriers to health equity?
SDOH
What can barriers to health equity lead to?
health disparities
How can HES address health inequities?
- Collect data
- Advocacy
- Health in all policies
- Comprehensive approach
- Addressing root causes of health disparities
- Specific initiatives
MAPP Stages
- Organizing for success & partnership development
- Gather collective vision of what community should be
- Conduct assessment
- Identify strategic issues to understand what community must address
- Formulate goals & strategies (community health improvement plan)
- Continue planning, implementing & evaluating community plan
What are the assessments that are conducted in MAPP?
- Community themes & strengths
- Local Public Health System
- Community health status
- Forces of change
What information does community strengths assessment provide HES?
Qualitative data on how communities perceive their health & QOL
What information does local public health system assessment provide HES?
measurement of how well partners collectively offer health services through analysis of national public health performance standards
What does community health status assessment provide HES?
Analyses of population health indicators
What does forces of change assessment provide HES?
Positive/negative eternal forces that impact health promotion
What is the Social Cognitive Theory?
Learning is interactive b/w person & environment, cognitive processes, & behavior
What are the constructs for the social cognitive theory?
- Behavioral capacity (knowledge & skills)
- Outcome expectations
- Expectancies
- Reciprocal determinism
- Self-efficacy
What is community organizing?
Process community groups:
- Identify problems or goals for change
- Find internal & external resources
- Deliver strategies to reach goals
What is PSE?
Policy, systems, & environmental changes