A Sociological study of Epidemics and reaction of society old age women in Pakistan

Abstract

An epidemic is an unprecedented outbreak of illness in a certain geographical area. It can be attributed to both communicable including non-communicable diseases, but explanations have been given to the ethical issues that arise from communicable disease pandemics, particularly with the advent of HIV/AIDS as well as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR Tb) as well as the emergence of new diseases including such severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Resultantly, in bioethics, a newest acquisition has been the discussion of ethical problems resulting from epidemics, in particular from communicable diseases. In this context, this entry primarily considers epidemics, although it briefly addresses epidemics of non-communicable diseases, although in the bioethical literature have yet to assume a proper position. In specific, the entry addresses three key ethical concerns relating to resource distribution, health workers including public health interventions resulting from communicable disease epidemics that are important in the sense of global bioethics. The article here conforms to the original concept of "global bioethics" as suggested in 1970 by the American cancer specialist Van Rensselaer Potter, by worldwide bioethics.