Discussion On Individual Moral Responsibility Of Public Health

Public health ethics is a new research field derived form bioethics in the early 21st century, it's the Rebellion and rectification toward the extreme individualistic trend of modern ethics. Public health ethics reflect and critique the tendency that traditional bioethics overemphasis on disease treatment, medical technology, patient rights, and neglect the importance of disease prevention, Humanistic care and Individual responsibility. The frequent outbreak of public health crisis becomes the serious threat to social security and population health in china during the 21st century. Everyone has covered with a lingering haze of crisis, but the crisis has highlighted the importance of public health ethics, and aroused people to reflect the responsibility of public health ethics. From the group's point of view, public health ethics emphasize that as a member of society, each citizen has the responsibility and obligation to protect public health and public Security. Individual responsibility as the minimum essential, its importance should not be overlooked. Only when everyone undertake the moral responsibility of public health, the promise to let "everyone has the equal opportunity to keep healthy "will come true one day.This article has been divided into three parts, including the following:In the first part, the author tried to discuss the important concepts during this article, includes moral responsibility, public health, public health ethics, and individual moral responsibility of public health.The second part is about how to undertake the individual moral responsibility of public health. People who can be responsible for their behavior must have objective condition and subjective condition. And two principles should be followed:principle of Equal treatment and principle of Caring. There are two kinds of individual moral responsibility:universal responsibility and role responsibility.The third part of this article pointed out the problem of lacking individual moral responsibility in public health. The reason for lacking of individual responsibility mainly included:individual atomization excluded individual moral responsibility, Irrational social psychology impacted individual moral responsibility, and weak links in the system of public health influenced individual moral responsibility. In order to solve the problem, Public health responsibility supervision mechanism should been improved, and the Educating for individual moral Responsibility of public health must been enhanced, and the must important thing is the individual must try to study the knowledge about public health and practice to undertake the obligations of public health on their own initiative.