Ethics of Health Care
Ethics of care in health care system is an important aspect since it ensures smooth operations and provision of quality care. Ethics are connected with morality and duties and responsibility are conducted with moral interest. Care and concern and they key issue in ethic of health care and to ensure the issues are fulfilled there must be a morality of rules so that every person in health care can act and have moral response in every situation (Beauchamp et al, 2014). In addition, ethics of health care are achieved from moral decision and personal interest to follow the principles of obligation in order to have the ethical standard. Thus, to keep the ethical standard, it is always advisable to keep away from unethical behaviors and have a moral reasoning. Note that ethics is related with set of standards which helps in making ethical decisions and maintain the ethical standards (Beauchamp et al, 2014). Generally, it is important to apply ethical of care and have a moral reflection and implement universal moral rules as well as principles of obligation. In examining ethics of care, Cochrane (2012) introduces the human right theory and asserts that this theory is an institutional framework in bioethics and it plays a major role of addressing the controversies which exists between health care and human rights.
In healthcare system, there is a need for new ethics framework to ensure that health care activities are done ethically and that every person has an access to quality care. Ethical framework should be applied in health care activities to ensure the best practices and activities are provided with ethical imperative (Beauchamp et al, 2014). In addition, the goal of ethics in health care is to achieve a high quality and competent health care and to ensure that the care is offered from clinical evidence and with high patient safety. Thus, moral obligation is an important aspect and different researches introduces different framework of ethics in health care. For example, Faden et al (2013) asserts ethics should be applied in learning system to ensure that things are done ethically in modern world. In learning environment, both professionals and patients should have an affirmative obligation and should set a society goal through research and practice.
Bioethics has wide-ranging disciples such as medical law, medical sociology, health economies among many and moral principles should apply in all these areas to ensure ethics in health care. Each discipline has moral problems and they can be rectified by understanding and valuing the human rights in a deeper way. In human rights, there is a difference between law and morality and in medical practice professors should focus on morality rather than law. The connection between human rights and morality introduces a clear ethical framework in health care in that morality is aligned with correlative duties and unusual moral strength. According to the research on bioethical approaches toward the provision of ethics of health care, the researchers assert that it is important to focus on human rights as ethics of health care. The reason as to why human right is a concern is because failure to consider human right is contributing to indeterminacy problems (Cochrane, 2012). According to the research, the approach of human rights is related with ethics of health care in that it introduces the normative force which helps people to define what is right. In addition, the approach is aligned with the best practices of human right and people use it as a solution to distributive problems faced in health care. In order to understand how human right approach should be applied in ethics of health care, it is important to put in mind that human rights are universal moral rights and every person should follow the moral rights without law enforcement (Cochrane, 2012) Thus, in health care system, professors must be concerned with offering protection as well as quality care to patient. In modern public health, human right approach should be applied in that the approach is related with human rights and biomedicine and thus, the close relationship will allow human beings to have the right to quality healthcare. Human rights also have universal standards which help in solving cross-cultural problems. Human rights are applicable in ethics of health care since it acts as a universal moral framework in global bioethics.
Gordon (2012) assert that the theory of human right should be applied in ethics of health care since it carries the moral foundation and helps people to understand the human dignity. The theory establishes the fundamental interest to carry out activities and best practices with an aim of creating dignified human rights. By following the human right, people always use the genuineness criteria and embraces the duties which fulfill and protect the human rights. Human right theory in health care asserts that ethics should be applied with connection to demand-side conceptions (Gordon, 2012). Professional must understand that human beings need a certain services in order to live and then he or she must apply the basic interest to fulfill the welfare rights. Understanding human right is best method of applying ethics in health care. Human rights are universal and every person should justify the moral demand. It is therefore important to ensure that in health care, human beings are entitled to liberal rights, right to quality health care, access to goods and opportunities freedom and equal moral worth. Human rights approach provides a valuable insight in that the theory offers solutions to concrete problems (Gordon, 2012). Professions of health care understand the moral capacities in humanity. The theory helps them to view the human rights as rational rights and every person is entitled to basic rights. In health care institution, professors must understand that human beings demands universal conception in social context and this will help to evaluate the best practices in order to achieve the human interest goals. To ensure effective use of ethics in health care with relation to human rights, it is important to put concern on cost and benefits as well as values and priorities (Gordon, 2012).
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