title: Using a comprehensive best practices approach to strengthen ethical health-related practice.
abstract: Ethical conduct plays a vital role in ensuring that issues such as health inequities are addressed. The Interactive Domain Model (IDM), a comprehensive best practices approach, provides a guiding framework to integrate ethics into health-related practice. Its five tenets emphasize the importance of developing multiple best practices to ensure sensitivity to local circumstances; taking into account the complex and interactive nature of the world; ensuring consistency between practice and key elements such as values, theories, evidence, and understanding the environment; engaging in ongoing critical reflection; and following a continuous improvement practice cycle with active participation from priority populations. Ethical implications for each tenet and ways to meet the challenges related to acting ethically are discussed.
authors: Kael Consulting, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. brkahan@gmail.com
authors: Barbara
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authors: Kahan
mesh_terms: D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006266:Health Education / Q000941:ethics*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016730:Program Development