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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"public health ethics"”.
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Building Context: Guiding Principles for Urban Bioethics and their Application via Qualitative Research
The field of bioethics originated from failures in medical research and provided a framework for medical decision-making and research ethics with the advent of its four core principles (justice, autonomy, non-maleficence, and beneficence). However, these core principles often overlook more complex …
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PROGRAMMATIC AND POLICY ETHICS IN MATERNAL AND CHILD PUBLIC HEALTH: A CALL FOR ACTION
Public health has become the face of much of modern medicine's successes. Since maternal and child health (MCH) has taken a central role in Western healthcare, outcomes have been greatly improved in all of Western Europe and North America. Social justice calls for bringing these successes to …
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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
… ethical and pragmatic intersections between public health ethics and the emerging discourse on disaster bioethics as public health disasters. This concept reflects public health issues with calamitous or devastating social consequences such as infectious disease outbreaks, the attendant …
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Utilizing facial scanning to screen for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa
… (FASD) remains a significant yet underdiagnosed public health concern in South Africa, with disproportionately high prevalence among historically marginalised populations. Oral Health Professionals (OHPs), through their clinical focus on the craniofacial region and their position within …
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Harm reduction in the context of drug use in Malaysia, a critical analysis of its justification and its compatibility with the criminal justice approach
… approach and argues that it is congruent with public health ethics, utilitarianism, human rights protection and the Islamic principles of ‘hajiyyat’ (needs), ‘darurah’ (necessity) and ‘al-∂arar al-ashaddyuzalu bi’l-∂arar al-akhaff’(tolerating a lesser harm to eliminate a greater one). The …
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Public Health Policy: An Ethical Analysis of Quarantine
<p>As a public health measure quarantine has both historical and contemporary significance both in the United States and abroad. On the surface it represents a low-cost, low-tech way in which the spread of disease can be mitigated as its core requirement is that those who may have been exposed to …
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The Limits of Screening
… is about screening for cancer—about testing healthy individuals for disease. The traditional way to approach this subject is to begin by considering whether screening is effective. So, for example, there is a hearty debate about whether cancer screening reduces mortality to a meaningful …
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Essays on Privilege and its Implications for Relational Autonomy and Vaccine Hesitancy
… I also clarify how my discussion impacts public health policies aimed at addressing vaccine hesitancy.
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An ethical analysis of obesity, weight stigma, and public health
… government’s very identification of obesity as a public health concern. The governments of Western democratic countries such as Australia and the United States of America continually identify obesity as a public health concern in press releases and policies. In this thesis, I argue that this …