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Ethical Issues in Public Health
In this course, lectures and small group discussions focus on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy, including resource allocation, the use of summary measures of health, the right to health care, and conflicts between autonomy and health promotion efforts. Student evaluation based on class participation, a group project, and a paper evaluating ethical issues in the student's area of public health specialization. OCW offers a snapshot of the educational content offered by JHSPH. OCW materials are not for credit towards any degrees or certificates offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Included here are a syllabus, lectures, and readings.
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 18, 2008
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- February 24, 2022
- Author:
- Ruth Faden, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Submitter:
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Cathy Swift
- Primary Audience:
- College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
