Question

What are the solutions for preventing type 2 diabetes? How would these ethical perspectives such as Egoism, Utilitarian, Deontology, Care Ethics, Virtue Ethics be applied to address type 2 diabetes? Which of the perspective is the most and least relevant to type 2 diabetes. Rank the perspective and state your reason.

Answer 1

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease. It is characterized by high levels of sugar in the blood.Solutions to prevent Diabetes type 2 are

• Check your risk of diabetes
• Manage your weight
• Exercise regularly
• Eat a balanced, healthy diet
• Limit takeaway and processed foods
• Limit your alcohol intake
• Quit smoking
• Control your blood pressure

Diabetes is a heterogenous disorder characterized by varied etiopathogenic mechanisms, associations, clinical presentations, and complications.People with diabetes exhibit varying attitudes and behavior patterns related to health‑care seeking, acceptance of modern medical care, and adherence to prescribed therapy. While all these aspects of diabetes care can be understood through psychosocial explanations.A temperate person exhibits appropriate self-control or restraint. Aristotle describes temperance as a mean between two extremes in the case of eating, an extreme lack of temperance can lead to morbid obesity and its excess to anorexia. Intemperance is a hallmark of many of our patients, particularly among those with type 2 diabetes, alcoholism, or cigarette addiction.

Virtues are thus habits of character cultivated through practice that result in the actions essential for an individual to flourish.

Deontology is a theory of ethics that places value on intention of a person performing a particular act, rather than the outcome. Hence, an adverse outcome such as hypoglycemia will be excused as long as the prescriber’s intentions were “good” while prescribing a particular antidiabetic treatment.

Hypoglycemia, an integral component of diabetes, is characterized by a wide array of symptoms. Some individuals present with more “complaints per unit biochemical abnormality,” while others carry a noncomplaining attitude (reflected in “asymptomatic” presentation); in spite of major biochemical defects. Much of this paradox can be explained by biomedical dysfunction such as hypoglycemia unawareness and by psychosocial determinants such as personality traits and coping styles.