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Ethics for Health Promotion and Health Education

  • 1st Edition - September 1, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jody Vogelzang
  • Language: English

Ethics for Health Promotion and Health Education discusses ethical principles and interpretations by classical ethicists as they apply to health promotion and health educat… Read more

Description

Ethics for Health Promotion and Health Education discusses ethical principles and interpretations by classical ethicists as they apply to health promotion and health education. The book unpacks ethical expectations in promoting and teaching health in both the classroom and as a researcher or practitioner and then applies the code of ethics using case study methods throughout. This informative text was written by health educators and practitioners to assist health educator and practitioner communities.

Key features

  • Reviews comprehensive ethical principles (autonomy, beneficence, maleficence and justice)
  • Provides the reader targeted applications of ethics to health education and health promotion following the CNHEO revised code of ethics for health education specialists
  • Presents practice and application at the end of each chapter to challenge ethical thinking related to health education and promotion

Readership

Researchers, Scientists, Practitioners, Undergraduate and Graduate Students in the areas of Public Health, Health Education and Health Promotion

Table of contents

SECTION 1: A CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS

1. Ethics and the Health Professions

2. Common Goals to Improve the Human Environment

3. Introduction to Ethical Principles

4. Ethics vs. Morals as Applicable to Health Education and Health Promotion

5. Daily Challenges in Ethical Decision Making

6. Ethics and the Media

SECTION 2: APPLYING THE CNHEO CODE OF ETHICS

7. Professional Boundaries, Autonomy, and Competence

8. Building Trust in Vulnerable and Under-Resourced Communities

9. Communicating Health Promotion Up and Down-Stream

10. Health Promotion and Education Ethics in Client and Patient Advocacy

11. Ethical Approaches to Service, Research, Publication and Presentation

12. Ethical Considerations of Program Assessment, Implementation and Evaluation

13. Health Promotion Considerations in Working with Children and Adolescents

14. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Dignity in Health Promotion and Health Education

15. Conclusion and Summary

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 1, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Jody Vogelzang

Dr. Vogelzang is the current Trustee of Ethics and Research for the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) and former chair of the Ethics Committee for the AND. She has a PhD from Walden University in Health Services with a specialty in Community Health and is an associate professor in Allied Health Sciences at Grand Valley State University. She has presented nationally on topics related to health profession ethics. Dr. Vogelzang was the editor for the first edition of Home Health Care Nutrition published by a practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). In addition, she was the editor of the Nutrition Section of the Home Healthcare Now Journal for three years, and a contributing author to the CNHEO 2020 Code of Ethics. Vogelzang served on the Board of Editors of the Pedagogy in Health Promotion journal for two terms.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA

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