Ethics Considerations on Public Management of Disaster Rescue under the Context of Epidemic Prevention and Control / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Natural disasters and epidemics are intertwined, posing a great threat to national health and property security, and hindering economic development. Faced with the complex rescue environment, the contradiction between individual interests and collective interests may escalate, causing ethical dilemmas different from those encountered in conventional medicine. In the context of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, how to maximize the coordination of the conflict between individual interests and collective interests, minimize the losses caused by disasters, and maintain social stability is a new topic of ethical research. Based on the ethical principles of public management, this paper explored the ethical conflicts of public management faced by emergency disaster rescue, in the view of providing ethical theoretical support for dealing with the practical difficulties of emergency public health crisis, and promoting the development and progress of disaster medical rescue work.