law and ethnics quiz

Classification of the law 

• Criminal, Civil, International, Military

  
  

• contract, administrative, tort

  
  

• negligence, abandonment, malpractice

  
  

Criminal Law

• It is the legal framework

• Dictates how the public health agencies implement their policies

• made to protect the public as a whole from the harmful acts of others.

Civil Law

• A voluntary agreement that two parties enter with the intent of mutual benefit for both parties

• It is the legal framework that pertains to the interactions and relationships between individuals within a community, excluding matters related to criminal, military, or religious affairs.

• occurs if a physician has agreed to take care of a patient but improperly terminates the contract

Contract law

• A voluntary agreement that two parties enter with the intent of mutual benefit for both parties

• the failure to do or perform a specific action, which results in injury to another person.

• Dictates the manner in which public health agencies implement and enforce their policies and programs across various levels of government

Administrative Law

• the failure to do or perform a specific action, which results in injury to another person.

• Dictates the manner in which public health agencies implement and enforce their policies and programs across various levels of government.

• Being negligent or ignoring performance of a necessary lawful act

tort law

• the failure to do or perform a specific action, which results in injury to another person.

• Performing a wrongful or illegal act

• Is a wrongful act, resulting in harm, that is committed by one person against another person or property

Negligence

• claims that are classified according to the manner in which the wrongful act was committed.

• the failure to do or perform a specific action, which results in injury to another person.

• occurs if a physician has agreed to take care of a patient but improperly terminates the contract.

abandonment

• the failure to do or perform a specific action, which results in injury to another person.

• occurs if a physician has agreed to take care of a patient but improperly terminates the contract.

• Performing a wrongful or illegal act

malpractice

• Performing a wrongful or illegal act

• claims that are classified according to the manner in which the wrongful act was committed.

• defines the period of time during which a patient may file a lawsuit.

Malfeasance

• Being negligent or ignoring performance of a necessary lawful act

• Performing a wrongful or illegal act

• defines the period of time during which a patient may file a lawsuit.