Authors:
Prasasti Pandit

Addresses:
1Department of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, United States of America. prasasti.pandit@uri.edu1

Abstract:

The primary goal of this article is to explore whether there are any specific ethical issues raised by public health interventions to prevent diabetes. Diabetes is invoking an increasingly high disease burden on global health and becoming a critical threat to economic and social development worldwide. This paper starts with a general idea and types of diabetes. Then it exhibits some reports which show clear evidence that diabetes is currently a worldwide threat to public health. After that, this paper dedicates to exploring the novel ethical dilemmas raised by the preventive public health measures for diabetes. This work also highlights that incorporating bioethical principles such as justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy are missing in the prevention methods of diabetes. Here it attempts to point out that without resolving the ethical dilemmas, preventive health programs are not worth effective implantation and consequently fail to provide people with a healthy life. It also categorizes some ethical distinctions of diabetes as a non-communicable disease with infectious disease ethics. Finally, it critically analyses the adopted public health standards to consider whether these raise any specific ethical dilemmas. This paper concludes with some suggestions to resolve these dilemmas.

Keywords: Diabetes; Economic and Social Development; Public Health; Global Health; Preventive Measures; Justice; Beneficence; Non-maleficence; Autonomy; Social Determinants.

Received on: 15/10/2022, Revised on: 21/11/2022, Accepted on: 25/01/2023, Published on: 05/03/2023

FMDB Transactions on Sustainable Health Science Letters, 2023 Vol. 1 No. 1, Pages: 11-20

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