HLTH 2030 Lecture 5: CH 5 - Ethics & Health EducationPromotion
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The health education profession is dedicated to excellence in the practice of promoting individual, family, organizational and community health. The code of ethics provides a basis of shared values that health education is practiced. The responsibility of all health educators is to aspire to the highest possible standards of conduct and to encourage the ethical behavior of all those with whom they work. Article iv: responsibility in the delivery of health education. Assigning individual responsibility to the victim for becoming ill due to personal failures. Attempting to change individuals and their subsequent behaviors rather than the social environment that supports and maintains unhealthy lifestyles. Telling employees to manage their stress when its environmental stressors causing the problem. Educating the public on the concept of risk and how to properly use risk factor information. Overemphasizing the importance of health, forgetting that health is a means to an end, not an end in itself.