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3248.1: Monday, November 8, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| For as long as people have been living together in groups, the moral regulation of behavior has been necessary to the group's well-being. This session, then, will review the Principles for Ethical Practice in Public Health and the required public health competencies. The session will discuss the importance of ethics with a focus on approaches to environmental ethics and the use of competing values in public health decision-making. Practical approaches cover the social environment, human rights and environmental justice. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Identifying pressing ethical issues pertaining to the environment and the health of populations. 2. Understanding the principle of interdependence in public health ethics as it applies to people and the environment. 3. Identifying tools for furthering ethical perspectives and public health actions pertaining to the environment. 4. Understanding the importance of the social environment in addition to the natural environment | |||
| James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD Barbara Hatcher, PhD, MPH, RN | |||
| Harry Perlstadt, PhD, MPH | |||
| Ethical dilemmas related to biotechnology and biomedical sciences Glenn McGee, PhD | |||
Principles of ethical practice: The social environment and sexually transmitted diseases in the United States ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD | |||
| African-Americans and climate change:Unequal burdens and ethical dilemmas Maya Rockeymoore, PhD | |||
| Medicine and Human Rights Abuses at Abu Ghraib: Where do we go from here? Steven H Miles, MD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Science Board | ||
| Endorsed by: | Health Administration | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Nursing | ||