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Good Decision Making in Real Time: Practical Public Health Ethics for Local Health Officials. Year Developed: 2014?. Source: National Association of County and City Health Officials. Presenter(s): n.a.. Type: Online Course. Level: Intermediate. Length: 114 minutes. Public Health Ethics Training Materials (provides information about facilitator and student manuals, a case repository, accreditation statements, and method of participation)
Annotation: Public health officials regularly balance competing ethical and professional obligations (e.g., efficiently but fairly allocating scarce resources, respecting individual rights while safeguarding the public’s health, protecting underserved and marginalized communities while engaging and sharing information in a transparent manner, and ensuring data confidentiality and individual privacy while conducting surveillance). The field of public health ethics provides a theoretical basis and practical frameworks for addressing challenges that commonly arise in public health practice. Because of the ethical challenges that public health officials face, there is an increasing need to demonstrate competence in public health ethics and an interest in public health ethics training. In order to address this need, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) developed a Web-on-Demand e-Learning module, Good Decision Making in Real Time: Practical Public Health Ethics for Local Health Officials. This training provides public health professionals with tools and practical examples to address ethical challenges that commonly arise in the practice of public health. The 1 hour 54 minute training presents the basics of public health ethics; examines the complementary role that ethics and law play in decision making; and reviews strategies for analyzing ethical issues, exploring the ethical dimensions of alternative courses of action, and justifying public health decisions. The training also presents an interactive case study that puts the learner in the role of a health official and walks through the steps of an ethical analysis using a real-life case scenario. This interactive case study illustrates how to use ethics frameworks, such as the Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health, developed by the Public Health Leadership Society, in the decision making process.
Learning Objectives: • Define the field of public health ethics. • Describe how to use ethical frameworks. • Describe a common public health ethics challenge. • Describe the process of case analysis. • State how public health ethics and law can work together to address ethical challenges and impact decision making. • Describe tools for helping public health officials make ethically informed choices, including illustrating the value of the case study approach. • List specific ways to integrate ethical considerations in the day-to-day decision-making in public health departments. • Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an inter-professional team of health care providers.
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Continuing Education: This course is available for up to 2 hours of CEU credits from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To obtain credit, all sessions must be completed along with the final assessment. Once you have completed viewing all of the sessions, the “Take Assessment” link will open up at the top of the page. For further instruction on obtaining CEU credit or to add the course to the CDC Training Portal for CDC employees, go to https://client.blueskybroadcast.com/naccho/2014/pdf/CE%20Instructions%20-%20Basic.pdf
Protecting Human Research Participants. Year Developed: 2008. Source: National Institutes of Health. Presenter(s): n/a. Type: Online Course. Level: Intermediate Advanced. Length: 180 minutes.
Annotation: This course is intended for use by individuals pursuing human subject research. It includes 7 modules and 4 quizzes. Topics addressed include the history of human subject participation, including War Crimes, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the three ethical principles made in the Belmont Report, and the informed consent process. Justice, equity and special group consent also are covered, as are risks and benefits of participatory research, the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRB), and clinical trial requirements . The course has been retired as of Sept. 28, 2018; archival materials are available as a reference.
Learning Objectives: • Describe the history and importance of human subjects protections. • Identify research activities that involve human subjects. • Discover the risks a research project might pose to participants. • Understand how to minimize the risks posed by a research project. • Describe additional protections needed for vulnerable populations. • Understand additional issues that should be considered for international research. • Describe appropriate procedures for recruiting research participants and obtaining informed consent. • Identify the different committees that monitor human subjects protections. • Understand the importance of study design in the protection of research participants.
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