Brazilian Health Professional Ethics Codes and COVID-19 Guidelines

Brazil's Ministry of Health issued Ordinance 639/2020 to register health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. This documentary research by Tiago Pereira de Souza analyzes which professional codes of ethics contained guidelines for the situation, using specificity and similarity analysis with Iramuteq software. The study identified seven professions with relevant ethical content.

Use Cases

• Analyze the alignment between professional ethics codes and public health emergencies based on the content analysis described.
• Compare ethical guidelines across different healthcare professions (nursing, pharmacy, psychology, etc.) based on the professions listed.
• Study the concept of 'deontological insufficiency' in professional practice based on the findings mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific public health event (COVID-19 in Brazil) and a concrete government action (Ordinance 639/2020).
• Applies both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, including statistical and content analysis.
• Identifies seven specific professions whose codes of ethics were analyzed.

Limitations

• The underlying dataset (the analyzed codes of ethics) is not directly accessible; only the research findings are presented.
• Row count, file formats, and column-level documentation for the source data are unknown.
• The last update date for the dataset is unknown; freshness is unverified.

Provenance

Source

Tiago Pereira de Souza via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Documentary research with exploratory, descriptive, qualitative, and quantitative analysis of professional ethics codes.

Time Range

Context relates to the COVID-19 pandemic starting in Brazil in February 2020.

Geography

Brazil