Ethics in Disaster Medicine and Public Health
Codes of Professional Conduct and Ethical Standards
- Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
Also available in French, Spanish and Arabic.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians
American College of Emergency Physicians - The Sphere Handbook: Protection Principles
Sphere - Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Leadership (PDF, 404 KB)
Wisconsin Hospital Association - Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Professionals (PDF, 376 KB)
Wisconsin Hospital Association - Public Health Code of Ethics (PDF, 889KB)
American Public Health Association
Information by Topic Area
The searches below find resources from two National Library of Medicine databases:
- Disaster Lit®: links to disaster medicine and public health documents for a professional audience, available on the internet at no cost. Includes expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and more.
- PubMed: more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. May include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Click on the searches below, or go directly to the databases and develop your own searches.
Overview
Disaster Lit
Ethical Considerations for Pandemic Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases
Disaster Lit
Crisis or Altered Standards of Care
Disaster Lit
Allocation of Scarce Resources and Triage
Disaster Lit
Key Bioethics Organizations
- Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University
- Hastings Center
- Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
- University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
- UNESCO, Social and Human Sciences, Bioethics Home Page
- Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Home Page, Public Health Ethics