Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Discussion 4

Read the World Health Organization publication, “Eleventh Futures Forum on the Ethical Governance of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness.” (I HAVE UPLOADED THIS TO THE FILE UPLOAD BOX WITHIN THIS QUESTION)

Research the position that the United States takes toward Pandemic Influenza Preparedness.

When you have completed these initial tasks, submit a paper to your instructor that addresses the following:

Describe the ethical approach of the United States and three additional countries to the distribution of vaccine and drugs in the event of a pandemic.

What ethical models does each country’s thinking represent?

What ethical challenges do you foresee in the event the four countries find themselves in a position to need to work together to distribute resources?

Based on your studies in this course, what actions might you recommend leaders take to address these challenges?

Grading Criteria and Percentage

1. Describe the ethical approach of different countries to a global problem (20% of grade)

2. Analyze the ethical models different countries use to assess ethical problems (20% of grade)

3. Analyze ethical challenges created by individual country responses to a global problem (20%

4. Recommend actions to address ethical challenges created by a global problem (20% of grade)

5. Use effective academic and professional communication skills to explain the relationship between ethics and leadership (20% of grade).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.