Community Health Promotion Methods
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the articles The Contributions of Credentialing and the Code of Ethics to Quality Assurance in the Health Education/Promotion Profession (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Does Health Promotion need a Code of Ethics? Results from an IUHPE mixed method survey (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. It will also be helpful to review the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s web page on Public Health Ethics Training Materials (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Examine ethical concerns, a trait of professionalism within the health education profession, and review the case studies in your course textbook (pp. 18-28). Download and familiarize yourself with the Code of Ethics for the Health Education Profession (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from your resource materials. Develop a paper that addresses the following:
- Understanding the Code: (minimum 1.5 pages)
- Describe the purpose of a code of ethics for health educators.
- In one paragraph each (total of six paragraphs for this section) – describe each of the six articles of the “Code of Ethics for the Health Education Profession” (ask yourself the questions below as you formulate each paragraph):
- What does each article mean?
- Why is this important to health educators and recipients of health education services?