ABSTRACT
Major infectious diseases have the characteristics of sudden, group and harmfulness. Isolation is widely used in the field of infectious disease prevention and control as an emergency management tool to control the source of infection and protect susceptible populations in emergencies. However, while it has achieved good results, there are also objective ethical disputes between personal freedom and public health, personal privacy and public knowledge. This paper fully discusses the ethical problems exposed in the implementation stage of isolation, follows the ethical principles of minimum infringement, utility and respect, and puts forward suggestions to strengthen the ethical decision-making ability of grassroots personnel, improve the operation procedures of isolation, and give more humanistic care to the isolated population. On the premise of the unity of public interest and individual rights and interests, we hope to promote the benign interaction between individuals and the public, properly solve the practical problems existing in the disposal of major infectious diseases, and give full play to the optimal function of public policy objectives.
ABSTRACT
Ethical dilemmas commonly exist among nurses during the epidemic prevention and control of major infectious diseases, which can affect their physical and mental health and nursing quality. This paper reviewed the ethical dilemmas of nurses in the epidemic prevention and control of major infectious diseases from four aspects, including concepts, current situation, evaluation tools, and influencing factors, with a view to raising the attention of nurses, nursing administrators, and health management organizations to the ethical dilemmas of nurses in the epidemic prevention and control of major infectious diseases, and providing theoretical references for further formulating strategies. In terms of ethical dilemmas research of nurses during the prevention and control of major infectious diseases, domestic and foreign studies mostly used scales and qualitative interviews to investigate. Research has found that the ethical dilemmas of nurses during the period include the ethical dilemma of visiting restrictions, the ethical dilemma of fair allocation of scarce resources, and the ethical dilemma of nurses’ rights and obligations. The main influencing factors include demographic factors, psychological factors, risk perception, and social support. It is recommended to develop suitable assessment tools from the perspective of ethical in the future, timely grasp the current situation of ethical dilemmas of nurses during the prevention and control of major infectious diseases, and deeply explore influencing factors.
ABSTRACT
Major infectious disease epidemic continues to pose a threat to human health and society, and the effective establishment and implementation of an early warning system plays a key role in addressing public health security risks. At present, the research on early warning of infectious diseases in the academic community mainly focuses on early warning information system, early warning mechanism, laws and regulations of early warning of infectious diseases, and some studies lack specific suggestions on operation methods. By collating and summarizing the literature from 2002 to 2022, regarding the early warning system and mechanism of major infectious diseases, this paper focused on analyzing the public health ethical dilemmas existing in the early warning process and discussing how to strengthen the construction of the early warning system of infectious diseases, so as to lay the foundation for creating more scientific early warning schemes of infectious diseases.