Public health: ethical issues
Report
Published 13/11/2007
This report considers what the Government, industry and individuals should do to enable people to lead a healthy life.
- To identify and consider ethical, legal and social issues arising when designing measures to improve public health
- To consider, by means of case studies:
- the variety of aims for such measures, such as informing individual choices and protecting the wider community, and their relative priorities
- the role of autonomy, consent and solidarity
- issues raised by decisions about, and perceptions of, risk
- criteria for the allocation of resources in specific areas of public health
- the special situation of children and those who are poor or socially excluded
- To examine the implications of the above for the development of frameworks for policy making in public health
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