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标题：Preparing humanitarians to address ethical problems
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作者：Catherine R. McGowan ; Louisa Baxter ; Marc DuBois 等
期刊名称：Conflict and Health
印刷版ISSN：1752-1505
电子版ISSN：1752-1505
出版年度：2020
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.1186/s13031-020-00319-4
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Infectious disease outbreaks represent potentially catastrophic threats to those affected by humanitarian crises. High transmissibility, crowded living conditions, widespread co-morbidities, and a lack of intensive care capacity may amplify the effects of the outbreak on already vulnerable populations and present humanitarian actors with intense ethical problems. We argue that there are significant and troubling gaps in ethical awareness at the level of humanitarian praxis. Though some ethical guidance does exist most of it is directed at public health experts and fails to speak to the day-to-day ethical challenges confronted by frontline humanitarians. In responding to infectious disease outbreaks humanitarian workers are likely to grapple with complex dilemmas opening the door to moral distress and burnout.