🧑‍⚕️Standards of Health

Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence and Justice are four pillars of medical ethics which can be found in Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress (2019). These four core principles are widely found in the ethics code of many health professions in Malaysia and are used to guide practitioners to ethically treat all their patients.

The table below highlights how each of these ethical principles is acknowledged in the codes of conduct and guidelines for medical and mental health professionals in Malaysia.