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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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Webinar – Wicked Problems: What Are They and What Can Public Health Do About Them?

Nov 26, 2015

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...

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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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A Public Policy Competency Framework for Public Health Actors

Nov 16, 2015

Analyzing Public Policies, Publications, Publications Analyzing Public Policies

This document represents an effort to develop a full competency framework for public health actors in their public policy-related work. It is primarily intended for public health professionals who participate in framing both organizational and professional...

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

Oct 01, 2015

Presentations, Presentations or Webinars Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Webinars

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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