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ersonal Directive
legal documents which allow you to name a decision maker
and/or provide written instructions to be followed when, due
to illness or injury, you no longer have the capacity to make
decisions such as where you will live or the medical treatment
you will receive.
Agent
A person to make decisions for a person who is
assessed as being incapable of providing
informed consent for health care or temporary
residential placement.
Morals
standards of conduct that represent ideals.
Ethics
, ideas that attempt to determine what is good, bad, right, or
wrong.
Personal values
the essential element to making ethical decisions.
The Ottawa Charter contained the following strategies to
promote health
Building healthy public policy, creating supportive
environments, strengthening community action, developing
personal skills and reorienting health services.
Deontology
Study that proposes a system of ethics that defines actions as
right or wrong based on their "right-making characteristics
such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness, and justice".
Utilitarianism
Also known as consequentialism, a system of ethics that
proposes that the value of something is determined by its
usefulness.