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Ethics and public health
Author(s) -
Leeder S. R.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00643.x
Subject(s) - public health , medicine , information ethics , value (mathematics) , relation (database) , environmental health ethics , public relations , engineering ethics , health policy , environmental health , nursing , political science , database , machine learning , computer science , engineering
This paper examines the differences between clinical and public health ethics and provides several examples of contemporary public health challenges that pose ethical questions. The relations among ethics, rights and obligations are explored, because public health philosophers propose these as different ways for public health to align its activities to what we value. Resources for education in relation to the ethics of public health are identified. (Intern Med J 2004; 34: 435−439)