Unit 1 - Health Care Philosiphies and Ethics

• Use of intervention technologies • Informed consent • Autonomy • Beneficence • Non-Maleficence • Justice • Economic consequences (personal and communal)

Patients have the right to: • Be fully informed to all treatment options • Appoint a substitute decision-maker (proxy) • Recognition of an advanced health care plan • A second opinion • Pain and symptom management • Refuse treatment • Refuse food or drink • End your own life • Assisted death

A document one makes provision for health care decisions in the event that, in the future, one is unable to make those decisions

The right to make informed decisions about ones own health

A fundamental ethical value that is defined as an act of mercy, and kindness with recognition of moral obligation - prevent or remove harms

The process of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body

“Do not resuscitate” , is a legal order written in a hospital to allow for a natural death

A home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill

Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, given by a patient to a doctor

A mentally capable person who has a prognosis of six months or less requests p, obtains and self-administers medication that brings about peaceful death

Non-harming or inflicting the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome

Improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering.

The authority to represent someone else, and make health care decision in case of the person being unable to make their own

Just behaviour or treatment

Any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture

Research studies that explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective in humans

Any of a range of medical therapies that fall behind the scope of scientific medicine but may be used alongside it in the treatment of disease and ill health. ex.) acupuncture and osteopathy

Indigenous health refers to the physical, cultural, social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal

Systems of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation

A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals treat symptoms and disease using drugs, radiation, or surgery

A set of concept and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them

The theory of knowledge, especially with regards to its methods, validity and scope. - distinguishes justice belief from opinion