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Title Ethics in public health and health policy : concepts, methods, case studies / Daniel Strech, Irene Hirschberg, Georg Marckmann, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Public health ethics analysis, 2211-6680 ; v. 1
Public health ethics analysis ; v. 1
Contents Concepts. Normative and Non-normative Concepts: Paternalism and Libertarian Paternalism / Kalle Grill -- "If You Smoke, You Stink." Denormalisation Strategies for the Improvement of Health-Related Behaviours: The Case of Tobacco / Kristin Voigt -- Should Public Health Ethics Embrace the Right Not to Think About One's Health? / Harald Schmidt -- Methods and Teaching. Incorporating Ethics into Teaching Health Policy Analysis / Holly A. Taylor -- Critical Public Health Ethics. Teaching for Moral Imagination and Discernment / Alison K. Thompson, Ann Robertson -- A Model Curriculum for Public Health Ethics / Angus Dawson, Ross Upshur -- Systematic Reviews of Reasons in Public Health Ethics Literature: A Roadmap / Neema Sofaer, Daniel Strech -- Cases. Cancer Screening, Risk Stratification and the Ethics of Apt Categorisation: A Case Study / Stephen D. John -- Innovation and Justification in Public Health: The Introduction of the Child Index in the Netherlands / Inge Lecluijze [and others] -- Distributing Vaccine Fairly During Influenza Pandemics -- A Case Study from Berlin / Jasper Littmann -- Asylum Seekers and Public Health Ethics / Verina Wild -- Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Personnel in Long-Term Care Homes: What Restrictions of Individual Freedom of Choice Are Morally Justifiable? / Georg Marckmann [and others]
Summary Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example, to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c.f. SARS or pandemic influenza), preventive measures like screening (e.g. for breast cancer or dementia) or health information campaigns, social inequalities or health care rationing--are increasing in worldwide importance. Evidence-based information for valid benefit-harm assessment is often rare and hard to get for participants in public health interventions. Program implementation often disregards requirements of fair decision-making processes (like public part
Analysis Ethics
Public health
Medicine
Medical ethics
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
politicologie
political science
recht
law
volksgezondheid
ethiek
filosofie
philosophy
bioethics
ziektepreventie
disease prevention
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical policy.
Public Health -- ethics
Health Policy
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Medical policy
Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects
Gesundheitspolitik
Medizinische Ethik
Gesundheitsvorsorge
Form Electronic book
Author Strech, Daniel
Hirschberg, Irene
Marckmann, Georg
ISBN 9789400763746
9400763743