Challenge to international agencies.
International health agencies face major changes requiring basic adjustments in approaches and values. The ethical issues include moral criteria for allocating scarce resources, relation of health to population growth and development, iatrogenic social consequences of health measures, and inappropriate transfer of technology. A proposed new style of international health work is summarized in five principles and ten guidelines. The principles are: development from below; a role shift from adviser collaborator; sequential research, demonstration, and implementation; concentration on problems of motivation; and parternship in approaches to mutually shared complex problems.
D003906:Developing Countries; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D004782:Environmental Health; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006296:Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D007391:International Cooperation; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011158:Population Growth; D013672:Technology