HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND PANDEMICS SOCIAL WORK ESSAY

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In 2019, half the world’s population was infected by the Spanish flu of the 1 billion infected 50 million past away from the disease. In 2003 humanity was faced once again by a terrible pandemic, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). SARS was merely a wakeup call, calling to attention the unpreparedness of Canada. In 2005 the World Health Organization (WHO) addressed this concern by implementing an influenza pandemic preparedness plan checklist. Canada responded to this fear of unpreparedness with the “Ontario health plan for an influenza pandemic”. One of the ethical key issues that were addressed was health care workers duty to provide care during a communicable disease outbreak. That is to say do health care workers from practitioners to nurses to volunteers have an