公共健康伦理中的主体责任略论——由甲型H1N1流感的全球性爆发引起的思考

Subject Responsibilities in Public Health Ethics: Reflections on the Pandemic Outbreak of H1N1 Influenza

对流行病的防控从根本上说并不是靠发明相应的疫苗和药物,而是靠源头的及时切断和人们的自我防范。为了保证人们的身心健康,维护社会的稳定团结,在公共健康领域,个人、团体和国家作为道德主体,不仅需要遵守一定的行为准则和规范,更应该承担相应的责任。

The prevention and control of the epidemic cannot fundamentally depend on our producing related vaccines and medicine. It should be dependent on our timely stopping it at the source and people’s awareness of self-defense. As moral subjects, individuals, organizations and the state should not only abide by code of ethics and standards of conduct in the field of public health, but also undertake corresponding responsibilities, so that people’s physical and mental health can be assured and social stability and unity can be safeguarded.