introduction

• Environmental Health


  Encompasses those aspects of human health, including quality of life that is determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment
• Environmental Health Practitioner


  Any person registered as such with the HPCSA and includes an EHP doing compulsory community service
• Ethics


  The study of moral principles or values that govern a person's behavior or conduct
• Morals


  The set of core beliefs or commitments of a person or society that identifies what is most important, valuable, or right regarding conduct and character
• Corruption


  Any conduct, behavior or action in relation to persons entrusted with responsibilities in public office, which violates their duties as political or public officials, and which is aimed at obtaining undue gratification of any kind for themselves or for others
• Values


  The beliefs and attitudes that a person or society holds about what is important, desirable, and worth pursuing
• Normative ethics


  • Concerned with establishing ethical norms and standards that guide human behavior
  • Seeks to answer questions like "What is the right thing to do?"
• Normative ethics


  • Utilitarianism
  • Kantian ethics
  • Virtue ethics
• Metaethics


  • Concerned with the origin and meaning of ethical concepts, such as good, bad, or right, and wrong
• Metaethics


  • Moral realism
  • Moral relativism
  • Emotivism
• Descriptive ethics


  • Describes the moral beliefs and practices of individuals, societies, and cultures
• Applied ethics


  • Applies ethical principles to specific areas of human life, such as medicine, law, business, or politics
• Applied ethics


  • Bioethics
  • Environmental ethics
  • Business ethics
• Environment means the surroundings within which humans exist and that are made up of: the land, water and atmosphere of the earth, micro-organisms, plant and animal life, and any part or combination of these and the interrelationships among and between them, the physical, chemical, aesthetic and cultural properties and conditions of the foregoing that influence human health and well-being
• Health


  A state of complete physical, mental and social well being, and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity
• The Minister can appoint any employee of the national department as a health officer for the same department, the relevant member of the Executive Council can appoint any employee of the provincial department as a health officer for the respective province, and the Mayor of a metropolitan or district council can appoint any employee of the council as a health officer for the respective municipality
• Ethics provides guidelines on how to make decisions that are beneficial to ourselves, others, and society
• Honesty is the best policy
• Misconduct or financial misconduct is an example of corruption
• Hard work is necessary for success is an example of a value