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Utilitarianism in Public Health
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Bulletin on what's new in public health ethics [in French, with resources in Fr/En]. From the Public health ethics committee (Institut national de santé publique du Québec).

Ethics and public health: Forging a strong relationship. By Callahan, D. & Jennings, B. (2002). In the American Journal of Public Health, 92(2), 169-76. On the site of PubMed Central.

Population Health Ethics: Annotated Bibliography. By Greenwood, H.L. and Edwards, N. (2009). On the site of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH).

Re-visioning Public Health Ethics: A Relational Perspective. By Kenny, N., Sherwin, S. and Baylis, F. (2010). Can J Public Health 2010; 101(1) 9-11. On the site of the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

The contribution of ethics to public health. By Coleman, C.H. et al. (2008). In the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86 (8). On the site of the World Health Organization.

Framework of Values to Support Ethical Analysis of Public Health Actions. By Filitrault, F., Désy, M. and Leclerc, B. (2015). On the site of l'Institut national de santé publique du Québec.

Éthique et santé publique. Enjeux, valeurs et normativité. By Massé, R. (2003). Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval. (In French only).

WHO guidelines on ethical issues in public health surveillance. World Health Organization. (2017). Geneva. On the site of the World Health Organization.

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Collection of Adapted Summaries of Public Health Ethics Frameworks and Very Short Case Studies

We have started to produce and to gather together these adapted frameworks and cases to help familiarize practitioners with frameworks and with ethical deliberation. To date we have eight frameworks and six cases, and will be adding to these over time.
Updated in April 2019. Description.
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Very brief public health ethics cases .	......	Adapted summaries of frameworks .
E-Cigarette Legislation 711 K		Putting Public Health Ethics into Practice: A Systematic Framework Marckmann et al. (2015) 625 K
A Tax on Sweetened Beverages 781 K		Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions Guttman and Salmon (2004) 633 K
Bicycle Helmet Law 694 K		Teaching Seven Principles for Public Health Ethics: Towards a Curriculum for a Short Course on Ethics in Public Health Programmes Schröder-Bäck et al. (2014) 621 K
Heat Wave Response 689 K		An Ethical Framework for the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity: A Tool for Thinking Through a Programme's Ethical Aspects ten Have et al. (2012) 188 K
Municipal Water Fluoridation 882 K		Looking ahead: Addressing ethical challenges in public health practice Baum, N. M., Gollust, S. E., Goold, S. D., & Jacobson, P. D. (2007). 612 K
RadonSmart 2020 645 K		Ethics and the practice of public health Bernheim, R. Gaare, Nieburg, P., & Bonnie, R. J. (2009). 601 K
		An ethics framework for public health Kass, N. E. (2001). 601 K
		Principles for the justification of public health intervention Upshur, R. E. G. (2002). 616 K
		We recommend that you consult the original documents for a better understanding of the frameworks.

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