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Ethics in public health and health policy concepts, methods, case studies /

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 c...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Strech, Daniel.; Hirschberg, Irene.; Marckmann, Georg.
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Public health ethics analysis, v.1
Subjects:
Public health > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical policy.
MEDICAL / Ethics
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Ethics.
Public health.
Medicine.
Medical ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6374-6
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
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (viii, 229 p.)
ISBN: 9789400763746 (electronic bk.)
9400763743 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: RA427
CLC: R1-05
Contents: Concepts.
Normative and Non-normative Concepts: Paternalism and Libertarian Paternalism /
"If You Smoke, You Stink." Denormalisation Strategies for the Improvement of Health-Related Behaviours: The Case of Tobacco /
Should Public Health Ethics Embrace the Right Not to Think About One's Health? /
Methods and Teaching.
Incorporating Ethics into Teaching Health Policy Analysis /
Critical Public Health Ethics. Teaching for Moral Imagination and Discernment /
A Model Curriculum for Public Health Ethics /
Systematic Reviews of Reasons in Public Health Ethics Literature: A Roadmap /
Cases.
Cancer Screening, Risk Stratification and the Ethics of Apt Categorisation: A Case Study /
Innovation and Justification in Public Health: The Introduction of the Child Index in the Netherlands /
Distributing Vaccine Fairly During Influenza Pandemics - A Case Study from Berlin /
Asylum Seekers and Public Health Ethics /
Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Personnel in Long-Term Care Homes: What Restrictions of Individual Freedom of Choice Are Morally Justifiable? /

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