The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protects Americans from risks to their safety, health, and protection both at home and abroad. CDC helps populations and fights diseases whether the disease starts abroad or at home, is acute or chronic, and is intentional or not.
Mission Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national focal point for applying and developing disease prevention and control, environmental health, health education programs, and health promotion with the goal of improving the health of Americans (Mission, Position, and Pledge| About | CDC, 2017).
Code of Ethics
The fundamental causes of disease should be addressed as well as health requirements to prevent adverse health outcomes (Allender, Rector & Warner, 2013).
Confidentiality of information that can cause harm to an individual or the public if published should be protected.
Programs and policies should be implemented in a way that enhances social and physical environment.
Professional competence of employees should be guaranteed.
Community health should be achieved in a manner that respects the rights of individuals (Allender, Rector & Warner, 2013).
Core Values
Helping Medical care
Providing more knowledge to community and individual healthcare with an aim of saving more lives.
Cutting edge of healthcare security
Curbing global diseases through lab analysis of advanced computing of huge amounts of data to find solutions (Mission, Role and Pledge| About | CDC, 2017).
Nurturing Public Health
Improving on the organization’s contribution to have valuable public health leaders and resources at local, state and national levels to improve the health of Americans.
Science in action
Researching and finding out the reason for people’s sickness and the most effective ways to prevent sickness (Mission, Role and Pledge| About | CDC, 2017).
Is it important for the individual ethical values be supported by the organization’s ethical values?
Individual ethical values should be supported by those of the organization so as to have an impact on employee morale, relationships with co-workers, reputation and retention. Furthermore, support of individual ethical values promotes adherence to ethics and motivates employees (Allender, Rector & Warner, 2013). A strong sense of professionalism can also be realized when organizations’ ethical values support those of individuals. Individuals can easily recognize the ethical implications of certain decisions as well as easily differentiate between what is wrong and right. Support of ethical values also promotes a culture of ethics among different individuals in an organization which further promotes loyalty and trust among stakeholders (Allender, Rector & Warner, 2013).
References
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Allender, J. A., Rector, C. L., & Warner, K. D. (2013). Community & public health nursing: Promoting the public’s health.Bottom of Form
Mission, Role and Pledge| About | CDC. (2017). Cdc.gov. Retrieved 25 September 2017, from https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm
