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Natural disasters, armed conflict, migration, and epidemics today occur more frequently, causing more death, displacement of people and economic loss. Ethical problems that healthcare professionals are confronted with are different from those in everyday practice. To prevent | Natural disasters, armed conflict, migration, and epidemics today occur more frequently, causing more death, displacement of people and economic loss. Ethical problems that healthcare professionals are confronted with are different from those in everyday practice. To prevent the violation of basic Human Rights [1], avoiding harm and finding the most beneficial action an understanding of types and determinants of ethical situations is needed [2]. | ||
A “disaster” clearly differs from an “emergency”, and has been described as a situation or an event that overwhelms local capacities and necessitates national or international external assistance. The increased needs of population, damages of infrastructure and loss of healthcare professionals create an imbalance that hampers healthcare systems. Daily routines get lost and are replaced by stressors such as massive workloads, scarce resources, which cannot be avoided in catastrophic conditions, threats to their lives or those of relatives and patients, a lack of both legal guidance or regulation and health policies, as well as language barriers and culturally diverse backgrounds [2,3] – all potentially contributing to moral distress. Experiencing moral distress can be associated with unresolved feelings of incompetence, compromised integrity, frustration, anger, powerlessness, outrage, and sadness [4]. | A “disaster” clearly differs from an “emergency”, and has been described as a situation or an event that overwhelms local capacities and necessitates national or international external assistance. The increased needs of population, damages of infrastructure and loss of healthcare professionals create an imbalance that hampers healthcare systems. Daily routines get lost and are replaced by stressors such as massive workloads, scarce resources, which cannot be avoided in catastrophic conditions, threats to their lives or those of relatives and patients, a lack of both legal guidance or regulation and health policies, as well as language barriers and culturally diverse backgrounds [2,3] – all potentially contributing to moral distress. Experiencing moral distress can be associated with unresolved feelings of incompetence, compromised integrity, frustration, anger, powerlessness, outrage, and sadness [4]. | ||
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Natural disasters, armed conflict, migration, and epidemics today occur more frequently, causing more death, displacement of people and economic loss. Ethical problems that healthcare professionals are confronted with are different from those in everyday practice. To prevent the violation of basic Human Rights [1], avoiding harm and finding the most beneficial action an understanding of types and determinants of ethical situations is needed [2].
A “disaster” clearly differs from an “emergency”, and has been described as a situation or an event that overwhelms local capacities and necessitates national or international external assistance. The increased needs of population, damages of infrastructure and loss of healthcare professionals create an imbalance that hampers healthcare systems. Daily routines get lost and are replaced by stressors such as massive workloads, scarce resources, which cannot be avoided in catastrophic conditions, threats to their lives or those of relatives and patients, a lack of both legal guidance or regulation and health policies, as well as language barriers and culturally diverse backgrounds [2,3] – all potentially contributing to moral distress. Experiencing moral distress can be associated with unresolved feelings of incompetence, compromised integrity, frustration, anger, powerlessness, outrage, and sadness [4].
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- ↑ PracticalBioethics. Disaster Ethics: An Introduction by Michael Weaver, MD. Available from: https://youtu.be/QmQOEnvpOEY[last accessed 09/03/22]
- ↑ PracticalBioethics. Disaster Ethics: The Collision between Public Health Ethics and Clinical Ethics. Available from: https://youtu.be/JYYAGJB5t4E[last accessed 09/03/22]
