This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a questionnaire that was intended to survey Canadian public health practitioners on the subject of public health ethics. The goal of this survey was to add to current knowledge of the extent to...

This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a survey of university directors of population and public health programs, or professors responsible for ethics teaching, within population and public health schools or programs in Canadian...

The purpose of this document is to equip public health actors to conduct a critical and nuanced ethical analysis of public health policies or population-based interventions accused or suspected of being paternalistic. To deepen understanding of paternalism and help...

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...

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...

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...