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  • Bioethics
  • Health Equity

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  • COVID-19 pandemic amplified healthcare disparities for Black and Brown communities.
  • Existing public health surveillance systems struggle to address community vulnerabilities.
  • Systemic disadvantage and inequality in healthcare require urgent attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a public health ethics and bioethics surveillance system.
  • To assess ethical and social justice violations in COVID-19 vaccine administration.
  • To ground the system in empathy and care ethics to promote health equity.

Main Methods:

  • Methodology for developing an ethics surveillance system.
  • Establishing content validity for a questionnaire.
  • Evaluating data and comparing ethical theories (deontology, utilitarianism, care ethics).

Main Results:

  • The study outlines the methodology for a novel surveillance system.
  • Content validity of the questionnaire was established.
  • Comparison of ethical theories to inform public health ethics.

Conclusions:

  • A public health ethics surveillance system grounded in care ethics can address systemic inequities.
  • The system aims to improve health equity in vaccine administration.
  • This approach enhances public health ethics for vulnerable populations.