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- Title
How Should Food Offered by Health Care Organizations Meet Individual, Community, and Ecological Needs?
- Authors
Weinberg, Jennifer L.
- Abstract
This commentary on a case suggests why health care organizations have responsibilities to serve food to their patients, guests, and employees that is ethically, nutritionally, culturally, and religiously appropriate. This article also investigates how inclusive, equitable, sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations' civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care societies; CULTURE; BASIC needs; ETHICS; VEGETARIANISM; NUTRITION; PATIENT-centered care; FOOD supply; FOOD preferences; PLANT-based diet; HOSPITAL food service; NEEDS assessment; RELIGION; SOCIAL responsibility
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 4, p256
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2023.256