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Public Health Ethics: A Tool for Deliberation and for the Development of Healthy Public Policies. Workshop organized for the Journées annuelles de santé publique - annual public health days, November 24, 2010.


Links
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).

Upcoming Publication: Population and Public Health Ethics Casebook.
Read more 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.

Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain. By Childress, J. F. et al. (2002).In The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30, 170-178. On the site of the Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Law section.

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.

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


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Olivier Bellefleur

Michael Keeling

From Theory to Practice: Working Towards Common Principles and Frameworks for Population and Public Health Ethics
This document, produced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, summarizes the proceedings from a Pre-conference workshop held during the CPHA Annual Conference 2011.
Published in September 2011.  Description.  Download  634 K
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The workshop, held during the Canadian Public Health Association's annual Conference in June 2011, was jointly organized by:

CIHR - Institute of Population and Public Health
CIHR Ethics Office
NCCHPP
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - Office of Public Health Practice
Public Health Ontario

The purpose of the gathering was to:
"Build capacity amongst workshop participants for population and public health ethics by considering the application of ethics principles to a hypothetical case study of relevance to population and public health research, policy, and practice; [and to] Stimulate discussion amongst workshop participants about ethics frameworks for population and public health" (from the report, pp. 1-2).

From Theory to Practice: Working Towards Common Principles and Frameworks for Population and Public Health Ethics
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Short summaries of keynote addresses from Dr. Nicholas King on Public Health Ethics Frameworks, and from Dr. Norman Daniels on Justice and a Public Health Ethics Framework help to put philosophical debates into context for the public health sector, and reaffirm the importance of discussion and working over ethical issues. Daniels notes that "a framework should not be treated as 'an algorithm for getting answers' " but rather that disagreement is a part of working on ethical issues (from the report, p.14).

The report includes summaries from presentations/ discussions led by:
Dr. Don Willison (Public Health Ontario) Christopher McDougall (NCCHPP), Dr. Sarah Viehbeck (CIHR-IPPH) and Dr. Ryan Melnychuk (PHAC), as well as discussion and comments relating to ethical frameworks applied to a hypothetical case study on sodium reduction.

We would like to acknowledge the CIHR - Institute of Population and Public Health for taking the lead in organizing the workshop as well as the CIHR Ethics Office for their financial contribution to the preparation of this report by The Conference Publishers.

The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.