Lloyd Duplechan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "How High Reliability Can Facilitate Clinical, Organizational, and Public Health Responses to Global Ecological Health Risks.”
Dr L. Syd M Johnson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Hope Ferdowsian and Jessica Pierce: “How One Health Instrumentalizes Nonhuman Animals.”
There are many elements and much coordination involved in the design and implementation of an effective resident training program in systems-based practice.
In “Allocating Scare Resources in a Pandemic,” Martin Strosberg calls attention to the need for preparedness planning including methods for rationing vaccines, antiviral medications, and intensive care unit beds and staff.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service, by Douglas H. Hamilton, traces the history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, with details about the service’s response to actual and potential epidemic outbreaks.
Article explains the role of surveillance by public health epidemiologists in tracking and controlling infectious diseases in the US and around the world.
Article explains the right granted to state public health agencies by the Supreme Court in Jacobson v Massachusetts to mandate vaccination in the presence of actual or threatened danger to the health of its residents from infectious disease.
Is this a conflict over a team member’s practice style or is it a breach professional boundaries? Is it appropriate for team members to make this judgment, or should it instead come from the team leader?