Policy Enforcement and Communication Strategies of Regulatory Bodies on Health Sector
Competency 2 508
Synthesize the policy enforcement and communication strategies of regulatory bodies across the health sector.
Reflection
Part 1: Medical Research Ethics
Reflect on the following:
How did the Lacks family, the media, and the general population view the medical community during the 1950s? What is the Nuremberg Code? How was it used, and was it easily enforced? Why or why not?
How have ethics and laws around medical research with human subjects changed? How is the medical community viewed today, and what do you think would have happened in Henrietta Lacks’s case if she lived today? Support your response by citing 2 to 3 reputable sources.
Part 2: Patient Protection
Reflect on the following:
Do laws and regulations protect patients or do health professionals protect patients?
Thinking about laws and regulations, how would the events that led to the discovery and experimentation with HeLa cells have been different if they occurred today?
Research and identify a contemporary case in which laws and regulations failed to protect patients from violations of privacy, compliance, or ethics.
Policy Enforcement and Communication Strategies
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Policy Enforcement and Communication Strategies
Part 1
Over the years, there have been different perceptions regarding the medical community. For example, the media lacks family, and the general population had a unique perception regarding the medical community within the 1950s. For example, all these groups viewed the medical community with embarrassment and fear. This reason prompted them to keep quiet while avoiding discussing these issues. During this period, they viewed the medical community as a forbidden fruit, and even though they had some information they wanted to know, they avoided it due to fear of the outcome they could have suffered. This fear made them have many questions which were left unanswered due to the fear of the answers that they would likely get. Furthermore, they feared to have a diagnosis since they feared the results; they could have lived in secrecy. Furthermore, since the cost of testing and treatment was high, these individuals did not address the condition until it became life-threatening.
The Nuremberg Code, as an ethical research principle, was set up to protect humans used in the research. This Code had ten guidelines that were supposed to be followed. The Nuremberg aimed to attain 100% voluntary consent of the human subject to protect them from injuries. However, the Nuremberg Code was not easily enforced. One of the reasons was that most individuals opposed it and were not ready to follow them. For example, there were a series of incidents where individuals have failed to obey them despite knowing the negative impact that failing to obey them would have on the human subject.
Over the years, there have been transformations in ethics and laws regarding medical research about human subjects. One unique change regarding the medical research employed is informed consent (Beskow, 2016). For example, the human subject should first give the go-ahead before the research is taken. The other change in the ethics and laws over the years is regarding confidentiality. When conducting the research, the researchers are supposed to maintain high respect and privacy for the human subject by ensuring that they will maintain their confidentiality (Hunt et al., 2020). The other change ethics and laws that have changed is regarding maintaining trust. Medical ...