Instructions:
Your assignment is to review and reflect on one of the topics below. After you select your topic, research and review two sources and address the questions listed below.
Native American Indian Sterilization
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
Current climate of social unrest in U.S. society today
Racism as a determinant of health
This discussion board assignment requires you to discuss an ethical situation and reflect on that topic. You may write up to 200 words per question in this assignment. You will answer/address each of the questions below:
What is the topic or issue you chose from the list above? List the two resources you accessed in order to research this topic, providing links so that your classmates may access those quickly and easily.
How was it harmful to society, both from immediate and long-lasting perspectives?
How did the issue evolve? How has that affected society?
What component(s) will be/is relevant to you in practice, or as you move forward in your career? For example, what is your main takeaway and how will that impact you as a public health or healthcare professional?
Finally, share a personal story or experience that impacted you from an ethical “oughtness” perspective. Have you had an experience in your own life where a situation or dynamic was intended, or “ought” to be one way, but was really another?
Read the other students’ discussion and choose two to respond to. You may comment, ask a question or share an experience.
