Public Health Ethics Archives

Webinar – Public Health Ethics: A Case in Environmental Health

Nov 29, 2016

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The webinar, co-presented by the NCCHPP and the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH), featured a case involving radon testing at daycares and highlighted both evidence and ethics. It was developed primarily for public health inspectors, but...

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Utilitarianism in Public Health

Jan 04, 2016

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In this paper, we introduce utilitarian ethics and consider the role of utilitarianism in public health. Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that, according to many authors, is particularly well suited for evaluating and justifying the morality of public...

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‘Principlism’ and Frameworks in Public Health Ethics

Jan 04, 2016

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This paper introduces principlism as an ethical approach and considers what role some of its features might play in public health. This paper presents some of the main features of principlism, the well-known and widely-used ?four principles’ approach in medical...

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Webinar – Public Health Ethics in Practice: Applying Frameworks to Cases

Oct 01, 2015

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During this webinar, we introduced participants to: The general nature and role of ethics frameworks in public health, Summary versions of two public health ethics frameworks, and Cases (drawn from public health and related to healthy public policy) for deliberation...

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Solidarity in Public Health Ethics and Practice: Its Conceptions, Uses and Implications

Jul 07, 2015

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Increasingly, the concept of solidarity is being brought into discussion as one of the principles and values that should guide the ethical practices of public health actors. Although solidarity is often included among the principles discussed in public health ethics...

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Summary – Solidarity in Public Health Ethics and Practice: Its Conceptions, Uses and Implications

Jul 07, 2015

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This paper provides a summary of a longer paper of the same name. It outlines the principle of solidarity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health. This paper summarizes the central components and the more variable dimensions of solidarity proposed by...

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