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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4222.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 2:30 PM

Abstract #115301

Individual and the Public Health Code of Ethics

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, JD, MPH, Institute for Practical Ethics, University of Virginia, P.O.Box 400800, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, 434-924-3487, rg3r@virgina.edu, Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, N504 Boynton, 410 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0346, and Alan Melnick, MD, MPH, Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239.

The Individual and the Public Health Code of Ethics

Scholars, as well as public health practitioners, are addressing the ethical challenges of current global threats, such as SARS and bioterrorism, by developing new ethics frameworks and principles, such as the new "Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health." Presenters will examine a few public health cases in biopreparedness, developed with public health practitioners, as a way to explore the new Code of Ethics for Public Health. A special focus will be the way individual interests are considered in the Code and in traditional ethics analysis, as well as in updated public health laws. As an example, frameworks will be presented as guides for addressing such perplexing challenges as protecting individual interests when quarantining large numbers of community members and securing public cooperation.

Learning Objectives:

Keywords: Ethics, Law

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Civil Rights, Ethics and Public Health

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA