Main description:

This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.

Contents:

Preface.- SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS.- Chapter 1: Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Contexts.- Chapter 2: Essential Cases in the Development of Public Health Ethics.- SECTION 2: TOPICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS.- Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation and Priority Setting.- Resource Allocation and Priority Setting Cases: 1. Priority Setting and Crisis of Public Hospitals in Colombia.- 2. Intersections of Public Health and Mental Health: Meeting the Needs of Children and Families.- 3. Public-private collaboration: What Role Should Corporate Sponsorship Play in Public Health?.- 4. Black-White Infant Mortality: Disparities, Priorities, and Social Justice in Public Health.- 5. Priority Setting in Healthcare: Ethical Issues.- 6. Critical Care Triage During a Pandemic.- Chapter 4: Ethical Issues in Disease Prevention and Control.- Disease Prevention and Control Cases:.- 1. Mandatory Vaccination in a Measles Outbreak.- 2. Public Health Approaches to the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.- 3. Should Newborn Bloodspot Screening be considered a Public Health Necessity or a Matter of Individual Parental Choice? Storage and Ownership of Newborn Bloodspots.- 4. Decoding Public Health Ethics and Inequity in India: A Case of Conditional Cash Incentive Scheme - Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY).- 5. HIV Criminalization, and STD Prevention and Control.- 6. Ethical Considerations in Administering Anthrax Vaccine to Children during an Anthrax Event.- 7. Non-Adherence to Treatment in Patients with Tuberculosis: A Challenge for Minimalist Ethics.- 8. Mass Evacuation.- Chapter 5: Ethical Issues Raised by Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.- Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Cases:.- 1. Municipal Action on Food and Beverage Marketing to Children and Youth.- 2. Obesity Prevention in Children: Media Campaigns, Stigma, and Ethics.- 3. Obesity Stigma in Vulnerable & Marginalized Groups.- 4. Water Fluoridation: The Example of Greece.- 5. The Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places in Bulgaria.- Chapter 6: Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Public Health.- 1. Assessing Mining's Impact on Health Equity in Mongolia.- 2. Should an Exception to the National MRSA Prevention Policy be granted for a Medical Resident with Untreatable MRSA Colonization?.- 3. Safe Water Standards and Monitoring of a Well Construction Program.- 4.Implementation of Global Public Health Programs and Threats to Personal Safety.- Chapter 7: Vulnerability and Marginalized Populations.- 1. Reducing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in a Culturally Diverse Society: The New Zealand Cot Death Study and National Cot Death Prevention Programme.- 2. Medical Tourism and Surrogate Pregnancy: A Case of Ethical Incoherence.- 3. Compulsory Treatment for Injection Drug Use Following Release from Incarceration.- 4. Unanticipated Vulnerability: Adding to the Marginalization of the Least Visible in Pandemic Planning.- 5. Can Asylum Seeking Be 'Managed' Ethically?.- 6. Tuberculosis Screening, Testing and Treatment among Asylum Seekers.- Chapter8: International Collaboration for Global Public Health.- International Collaboration Cases:.- 1. The Ethics of HIV Testing Policies.- 2. Just Allocation of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 3. Drug Trials in Vulnerable Populations of Developing Countries.- 4. Ethical Issues in Responding to International Medication Stock-outs.- 5. Transmission of Cholera into Haiti.- 6. Perilous Path to Peace in the Middle East: The Dilemma of Sanctions Kingdom.- 7. Advancing Informed Consent and Ethical Standards in Multinational Health Research.- Chapter 9: Public Health Research Ethics.- Public Health Research Cases: 1. To Reveal or Not to Reveal Potentially Harmful Findings: A Dilemma for Public Health Research.- 2. The Challenges of Applying Ethical Principles in Impoverished Communities: The Case of.- 3. Improving Review Quality and Efficiency of Research Ethics Committees to Enhance Evidence Based Public Health Practice in Africa.- 4. Internet-based HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Programs in Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).- Index.