Public Health - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Health research ethics in public health: trials and implementation of malaria mosquito control strategies.

6 Aug 2009 Health research ethics has its roots in protecting individuals participating in clinical trials. There is, however, nascent interest in ethics in public health, although it does not yet cover ethics in the development of public health products. The ... Read more...

Public health, the APHA, and urban renewal.

14 Jul 2009 Joint efforts by fields of public health in the last decade have advocated use of the built environment to protect health. Past involvement by public health advocates in urban policy, however, has had mixed results. Although public health has ... Read more...

[The ethical and deontological issues of public health in Russia]

29 Apr 2009 The issues of physician-patient relationship are moving from the deontological to social area and hence need not only organizational but political actions as well related to the medical provision of population and mortality increase. The patients ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Public Health - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• How to stop public health conferences becoming trade fairs. 30 Aug 2009
• Slipping through the net: social vulnerability in pandemic planning. 30 Aug 2009
• Health research ethics in public health: trials and implementation of malaria mosquito control strategies. 6 Aug 2009
• The medical ethics of making tough decisions: a conversation on ethics when public health and private practice converge. 30 Jul 2009
• Ancillary care for public health research in developing countries. 20 Jul 2009
• Flu furore hits Argentina. 14 Jul 2009
• Public health, the APHA, and urban renewal. 14 Jul 2009
• Carrier detection and clinical uncertainty: the case for public health ethics. 16 Jun 2009
• Evidence pyramids, rigour and ethics review of public health research. 30 May 2009
• Smoking inside vehicles should be banned globally. 12 May 2009
• [The ethical and deontological issues of public health in Russia] 29 Apr 2009
• Engaging the values-based ethical dilemmas in harm minimization: a response to Weatherburn. 29 Apr 2009
• [Fundamental principles of social work--(also) a contribution to public health ethics] 29 Apr 2009
• [Ethical aspects of the fluoridation of water, salt, and milk] 29 Apr 2009
• [Public health ethics in general practice] 29 Apr 2009
• [Problems and ethical challenges in public health communication] 29 Apr 2009
• [Ethics versus economics in public health? On the integration of economic rationality in a discourse of public health ethics] 29 Apr 2009
• [Ethical aspects of workplace health management] 29 Apr 2009
• [Justice in health. Comment on the theory by Norman Daniels] 29 Apr 2009
• [Morality, ethics and public health: philosophy and the challenge of pluralism] 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Public Health'

Definition: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.

Descriptor UI: D011634

Alternative terms: Public Health; Health, Public; Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health; Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health;

Related Mesh Headings: Preventive Medicine; Social Medicine; Zoonoses;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776.670; N01.400.550; N06.850;

Online Note: pre-explosion = PUBLIC HEALTH (PX)

Technical Notes: SPEC; SPEC qualif; a venerable hist & modern concept of the health & health problems of "the public": do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS