This project is now inactive. Publications developed under this project are archived here. In this project, we have documented the not-for-profit organizations’ practices and analyzed them through lenses of different issues in public health and public policy....
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...
‘Principlism’ and Frameworks in Public Health Ethics
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...
Webinar – Wicked Problems: What Are They and What Can Public Health Do About Them?
Health Inequalities, Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Health Inequalities, Webinars
This webinar presented by Val Morrison offered a general overview of the concept of wicked problems, particularly as they relate to healthy public policy. This webinar was part of a series of webinars organized by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health...
Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: Method and Preliminary Results of a Literature Review
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...
Querying Databases to Identify Documents on Knowledge Sharing Targeting Public Policies: Example of One Study
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...