Public Health, Law And Ethics: Article Analysis

The article “Mapping the Issues: Public Health, Law and Ethics”, stress that the problems in the practice of public health cannot resolved only through scientific analyzation. The combination of public health, law and ethics provide a better guide to solve issues in public health. Public health considers the majority population’s health and well-beings; public health law aims to create legal power and duties of the government to work with the health care, business, the community, the media, and academy; and public health ethics discuss unanswered questions in health care through the application of healthcare theory of professional ethics, applied ethics and advocacy ethics (Gostin, 2010).

In my point of view, I agree with the concept of public health, it focuses on the health conditions for

It requires the health care agencies to be sensitive to the varied needs of different population. Otherwise, inequality and unexpected issues will occur. A plenty of factors that affect public health, including population culture, education, economy, and environment which is hard to monitor by public health agencies. It needs the assistance from political and professional expertise. The political agencies create laws to change population health behaviors, identify certain health concerns, set health and safety standards in different public health areas, and put the standards into effect through legislatures, courts, and administrative agencies (Gostin, 2010). An example of public health law will be the HITECH Act, which was signed into law in 2009 which requires the health care providers to adopt the electronic health record systems for all patients and at the same time protect the patients’ information to be secure without breach of any patients’ privacy (DOH, n.d.). The violation of this law will cause penalty for health care providers. The application of public health law relieves inequality and protect the right for the population