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Please help answer the following question regarding health behaviors. Provide a reference as part of the solution.

There are a lot of ethical conflicts between our personal belief systems and our jobs as public health officers. Which should predominate in your ideal practice?

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This posting helps with a health behavior problem. The solution contrasts personal belief systems with jobs as public health officers.

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I believe that any person can hold their own personal beliefs AND also hold a government job in public health if they can perform it's required duties. .I do not believe that they can use this job to persuade or dissuade other in their beliefs or utilize their position to reflect their own beliefs. I also do not believe that a facility can discriminate against an employee based on their beliefs. There was a case in 2002 in which a professional and hard-working health department nurse lost her job because she refused to promote abortion based on her beliefs. When she was hired in 1990, she ...

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