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Mental Health in the Field of Health Impact Assessment

Mar 30, 2016

Health Impact Assessment, Population Mental Health, Publications, Publications HIA, Publications PMH

This briefing note provides a perspective on current practice of mental health impact assessment of projects, programs or policies. This document outlines three approaches, the rationales put forth by proponents of these approaches, their contribution to health impact...

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Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities

Mar 17, 2016

Health Inequalities, Publications, Publications Health Inequalities

The goal of this document is to clarify how different policy approaches are grounded theoretically and how they might produce different effects in efforts to reduce health inequalities. This document is intended to support the work of public health actors by:...

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Utilitarianism in Public Health

Jan 04, 2016

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

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

Public Health Ethics, Publications, Publications Ethics

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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Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: Method and Preliminary Results of a Literature Review

Nov 16, 2015

Knowledge Sharing, Publications, Publications Knowledge Sharing

What can we learn from published research about experiences of knowledge sharing targeting public policies? We have conducted a review of the literature on this subject in order to draw lessons that may be useful to public health actors. This document presents the...

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Querying Databases to Identify Documents on Knowledge Sharing Targeting Public Policies: Example of One Study

Nov 16, 2015

Knowledge Sharing, Publications, Publications Knowledge Sharing

Putting together relevant combinations of keywords to identify documents discussing complex subjects in databases is not easy. Within the context of carrying out a review of the literature on knowledge sharing targeting public policies, we developed a query to search...

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