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Health Department Faculty Perceptions About Ethics in Professional Preparation

Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) ethics committee; an assistant professor of health education, York College, City University of New York

Steven E. Shive, PhD, MPH

SOPHE Ethics Committee; a research associate for the Center for Asian Health, Temple University;

The purpose of this article is to report the key preliminary findings of a survey conducted among university faculty serving health education and health promotion programs. Few distinct courses in ethics are offered in graduate health education programs and even fewer are offered at the undergraduate level. Most programs address ethics throughout several courses in the program. Among those that offer distinct ethics courses, fewer than half require the course for graduation. Faculty can influence improvement in health professionals' ability to engage in ethical reflection, with the subsequent outcome of the incorporation of the necessity of ethical deliberation into health education practice.

Key Words: health education ethics

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 8, No. 4, 337-341 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907308151


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