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Public Health Ethics and Practice.
This book examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Public health ethics and practice; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: Why public health ethics?; 2. Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health?; 3. Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it; 4. What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB; 5. The evaluation of public health education initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique.
- 6. Relevance of primary care bioethics committees in public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile7. Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma?; 8. Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health; 9. Politics, ethics and evidence:immunisation and public health policy; 10. Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer; 11. A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health; Introductio.