title: The context of ethics in the health care industry.
abstract: Examines ethics in the health care industry from the perspectives of investors, employees, patients, competitors and the environment. Ethical behaviour in the health care industry is essential and desirable; however, determining which behavioural actions are ethical and which are unethical is difficult. Although never will everyone agree on specific ethical standards, everyone should agree that setting ethical standards is vital. Therefore, administrators of health care institutions and health care providers should work together to establish codes of ethics which define boundaries for ethical behaviours in the health care industry.
authors.affiliation: College of Business Administration, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Spinks
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000592:standards; D004782:Environmental Health; D004989:Ethics; D040861:Ethics, Business; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000592:standards; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards; D007449:Investments / Q000592:standards; D016272:Occupational Health; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D011287:Prejudice; D028743:Professional Misconduct; D017406:Sexual Harassment; D014481:United States