AMA Journal of Ethics^®

When regulatory decisions express overconfidence, one risk is that the costliness or misinformation will exacerbate health inequity.

Dr Paula Lantz joins Ethics Talk to discuss how medicalization of public health undermines effective community-based governance responses.

Conflicts of interest must be acknowledged with sincerity and earnestness and managed such that the conflict is eliminated or, at least, credibly mitigated.

Spread of health misinformation by health professionals who also hold government positions represents a long-standing problem exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinician policy makers have faced unprecedented challenges to their roles in governance.

Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States.

Following evidence-based approaches to evaluating and reporting suspicion of child maltreatment can help minimize bias and promote equity.

Adverse childhood experiences and trauma influence health in ways that now garner more attention across the life-spectrum.

When health care professionals encounter child abuse and neglect, they tend to experience a range of emotions, such as anger, sadness, and frustration.