Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool: HHEAT Handbook

The HHEAT is an ethical analysis tool designed to help humanitarian healthcare workers make ethical decisions. By providing a step-by-step approach to complex ethical decision-making, the HHEAT ensures that the process is more comprehensive and transparent. It helps structure and support individual as well as group deliberation by promoting rational discussion and moral justification. The tool can be used in pre-departure training to work through common cases and scenarios, in the field when ethical issues arise, or in debriefing sessions after particularly difficult decisions. Ultimately, the tool supports and promotes moral justification of difficult decisions, a critical consideration for humanitarianism in the 21st century.