Health Ethics
and Law
For Health Extension Workers
Challi Jira
Jimma University
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center,
the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education
November 2004
, Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter
Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
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, Acknowledgments
The development of this lecture note for training Health Extension
workers is an arduous assignment for Ato Challi Jira at Jimma
University.
Essentially, it required the consolidation and merging of existing in
depth training materials, examination of Health Extension Package
manuals and the Curriculum.
Recognizing the importance of and the need for the preparation of the
lecture note for the Training of Health Extension workers THE
CARTER CENTER (TCC) ETHIOPIA PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING
INITIATIVE (EPHTI) facilitated the task for Jimma University to write
the lecture note in consultation with the Health Extension
Coordinating Office of the Federal Ministry of Health.
Finally the Federal Ministry of Health would like to express special
words of gratitude for those who contributed and endeavored to the
development of this lecture note and to TCC/USAID for the technical
and financial support.
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, Table of Contents
Topics Pages
Acknowledgement ..........................................................................i
Table of contents ........................................................................... ii
Introduction ............................................................................... 1
UNIT ONE: Background and Rationale......................................... 3
1.1 Background ............................................................ 3
1.2 Rationale of Ethics ................................................ 8
UNIT TWO: Health Ethics ......................................................... 10
UNIT THREE: Principles of Ethics for Health Extension Workers ..15
UNIT FOUR: Existing Health Laws in Ethiopia ...........................22
Appendix 1: Public Health Proclamation.....................................45
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