5032.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Should Public Health Have a Code of Ethics?

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
8:30 AMA Code of Ethics for Public Health: Past Reflections, Future Potential
Marc D. Hiller, DrPH
8:50 AMHow a Code Might Help Practitioners
David W. Fleming, MD
9:10 AMAssessment of Public Health Practioners' Needs
Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Phillip Nieburg
9:30 AMAssumption of material responsibility by the health professions
Andrew Jameton, PhD, Shireen Rajaram, PhD, Christina Kerby Kessinger, MS, MPA, Working Group of the Exploring Bioethics Upstream Project
Sponsor:Ethics Forum
Cosponsors:Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA