HP 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Categorical Imperative, Diminished Responsibility, Consequentialism

• School: USC
• Department: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies
• Course: HP 200
• Professor: Bluthenthal Ricky

Document Summary

Individual freedom (equality principle, principle of autonomy) people must have the freedom to choose their own way of being ethical within the framework of the other principles. Informed consent: subjects in a study must base their voluntary participation on a full understanding of the possible risks involved. "chain referrals with math: random or probability sampling. "gold standard : everyone has the same chance of being included in the study, not used in medical treatments generally, rigor. Multiple cross sectional- similar populations non same people (ie. incoming freshmen) Cohort-same people over time; long-term observations: as research becomes more rigorous, the effects become smaller, elements of causality. Intervention expose and outcome vary together (e. g. , a dose-response relationship) Low culture of origin orientation high culture of origin orientation. Indexes: a collection of abstracts and papers regarding a specific subject, pubmed typically list abstracts by publication date although there are other options such as authors last name, most recent, relevance.