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Webinar - How Can We (and Why Should We) Analyze the Ethics of Paternalistic Policies in Public Health? Click to watch and listen to the recording of the webinar.

Webinar NCCHPP & NCCAH - Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City.

NCCHPP & NCCDH Webinar - Public Health Ethics and Equity: Naming and Navigating Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice. Click to watch and listen to the recording of the webinar.

Presentation - How To (and Why) Analyze the Ethics of Paternalistic Policies in Public Health

NCCHPP & NCCMT Webinar - Priority-setting in Public Health: Evidence and Ethics in Decision-making
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NCCHPP & NCCID Webinar - Public Health Ethics: A Case in Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
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NCCHPP & NCCEH Webinar - Public Health Ethics: A Case in Environmental Health,
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Repertoire - Ethics Frameworks for Public Health 

Utilitarianism in Public Health
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'Principlism' and Frameworks in Public Health Ethics
 1.2 MB

Introduction to Public Health Ethics 3: Frameworks for Public Health Ethics
 772 K

An Introduction to the Ethical Implications of Economic Evaluations for Healthy Public Policy


Links
Bulletin on what's new in public health ethics [in French, with resources in Fr/En]. From the Public health ethics committee (Institut national de santé publique du Québec).


Ethics and public health: Forging a strong relationship. By Callahan, D. & Jennings, B. (2002). In the American Journal of Public Health, 92(2), 169-76. On the site of PubMed Central.

Population Health Ethics: Annotated Bibliography. By Greenwood, H.L. and Edwards, N. (2009). On the site of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH).

Re-visioning Public Health Ethics: A Relational Perspective. By Kenny, N., Sherwin, S. and Baylis, F. (2010). Can J Public Health 2010; 101(1) 9-11. On the site of the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

The contribution of ethics to public health. By Coleman, C.H. et al. (2008). In the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86 (8). On the site of the World Health Organization.

Framework of Values to Support Ethical Analysis of Public Health Actions. By Filitrault, F., Désy, M. and Leclerc, B. (2015). On the site of l'Institut national de santé publique du Québec.

Éthique et santé publique. Enjeux, valeurs et normativité. By Massé, R. (2003). Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval. (In French only).

WHO guidelines on ethical issues in public health surveillance. World Health Organization. (2017). Geneva. On the site of the World Health Organization.


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Collection of Adapted Summaries of Public Health Ethics Frameworks and Very Short Case Studies
We have started to produce and to gather together these adapted frameworks and cases to help familiarize practitioners with frameworks and with ethical deliberation. To date we have eight frameworks and six cases, and will be adding to these over time. 
Updated in April 2019. Description.
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Ethics Education in Public Health: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? - Summary
In this short summary, we present the main findings from a review of the international and Canadian public health and bioethics literatures that was conducted in order to learn about public health ethics (PHE) education in public health programs and schools.
Published in May 2018.  Description.  Download.  924 K
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Survey to Identify the Public Health Ethics Needs of Public Health Practitioners in Canada: Preliminary Results
This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a questionnaire that was intended to survey Canadian public health practitioners on the subject of public health ethics.
Published in March 2018.  Description.  Download.  1 MB
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Survey on Ethics Teaching in Public Health Schools and Programs in Canada: Preliminary Results
This document presents a preliminary, graphic summary of results from a survey of university directors of population and public health programs, or professors responsible for ethics teaching, within population and public health schools or programs in Canadian universities on the subject of teaching ethics in public health in their institutions.
Published in March 2018.  Description.  Download.  1 MB
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How Can We (and Why Should We) Analyze the Ethics of Paternalistic Policies in Public Health?
The purpose of this document is to equip public health actors to conduct a critical and nuanced ethical analysis of public health policies or population-based interventions accused or suspected of being paternalistic.
Published in February 2018. Description.  Download  848 K
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Article: Finding Traction in Public Health Ethics: Reflections and Practical Resources, published in the Ontario's Health Promotion E-Bulletin (OHPE Bulletin)
The Centre's Michael Keeling and Olivier Bellefleur published an article entitled Finding Traction in Public Health Ethics: Reflections and Practical Resources in the Ontario's Health Promotion E-Bulletin (OHPE Bulletin), on Friday September 23, 2016.
Published in September 2016. Description.
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Utilitarianism in Public Health
In this paper, we introduce utilitarian ethics and consider the role of utilitarianism in public health.
Published in January 2016. Description.  Download  1.3 MB
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'Principlism' and Frameworks in Public Health Ethics
This paper introduces principlism as an ethical approach and considers what role some of its features might play in public health.
Published in January 2016. Description.  Download  1.2 MB
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Solidarity in Public Health Ethics and Practice: Its Conceptions, Uses and Implications
This document outlines the principle of solidarity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
Published in July 2015.  Description.  Download   722 K
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Summary - Solidarity in Public Health Ethics and Practice: Its Conceptions, Uses and Implications
This paper provides a summary of a longer paper of the same name. It outlines the principle of solidarity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
Published in July 2015.  Description.  Download   1 MB 
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Introduction to Public Health Ethics 3: Frameworks for Public Health Ethics
This document introduces, compares and critiques eight ethics frameworks for public health.
Published in March 2015.  Description.  Download  772 K
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Introduction to Public Health Ethics 2: Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations
This document offers an overview of various theoretical perspectives informing public health ethics, including its philosophical underpinnings.
Published in March 2015.  Description.  Download   637 K
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Summary – The Principle of Reciprocity: How Can it Inform Public Health and Healthy Public Policies?
This paper provides a very short summary of a longer paper of the same name. It outlines the principle of reciprocity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
Published in October 2014.  Description.  Download  1 MB
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The Principle of Reciprocity: How Can it Inform Public Health and Healthy Public Policies?
This document outlines the principle of reciprocity as it may be applied in the ethics of public health.
Published in October 2014.  Description.  Download  1.33 MB
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Introduction to Public Health Ethics 1: Background
This document defines public health and reviews the history and development of public health ethics, including its philosophical underpinnings.
Published in January 2014.  Description.  Download  636 K
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Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases from research, policy, and practice
This Casebook features 16 cases on population and public health ethics that are accompanied by an invited case discussion.
Published in March 2013.  Description.  Download  3.16 MB, (on the site of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto).
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From Theory to Practice: Working Towards Common Principles and Frameworks for Population and Public Health Ethics
This document, produced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, summarizes the proceedings from a Pre-conference workshop held during the CPHA Annual Conference 2011.
Published in September 2011.  Description.  Download  634 K
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A Survey of Ethical Principles and Guidance Within Selected Pandemic Plans
This document provides a survey of the explicit goals, ethical principles, and ethics-related recommendations put forward by a selection of national, sub-national and international pandemic preparedness plans and policies.
Published in June 2011.  Description.  Download   668 K
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Public Health Ethics. Selected Resources: Ethics in a Pandemic
An introduction to the field of Public Health Ethics (PHE) as applied to policy and practice responses in times of pandemic.
Published in May 2011.  Description.  Download   606 K
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Case Studies of Ethics During a Pandemic
A collection of pandemic and infectious disease control scenarios, intended to stimulate ethical reflection within the public health sector.
Published in April, 2010.  Description.  Download  519 K
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Health in Political Philosophy: What Kind of Good is it?
Summary of a presentation by philosopher Daniel Weinstock.
Published in January, 2010.  Description.  Download  140 K.
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List of Public Health Ethics Researchers and Instructors across Canada
A preliminary inventory of individuals engaged in public health ethics-related research and teaching across the country.
Published in November, 2009.  Description.  Download  138 K
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The use of Incentives and the Promotion of Healthy Behaviours. The Case of Unhealthy Food
This paper is part of a series of essays developed for the NCCHPP by researchers associated with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (Université de Montréal Research Centre in Ethics) as part of a project to examine ethical issues related to healthy public policy.
Published in May, 2009.  Description.  Download  544 K
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Autonomy promotion in a pluriethnic context
This paper is part of a series of essays developed for the NCCHPP by researchers associated with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (Université de Montréal Research Centre in Ethics) as part of a project to examine ethical issues related to healthy public policy.
Published in May, 2009.  Description.  Download   214 K.
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Public Policies Guided by the Precautionary Principle
This paper is the first in a series of essays developed for the NCCHPP by researchers associated with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (Université de Montréal Research Centre in Ethics) as part of a project to examine ethical issues related to healthy public policy.
Published in October, 2008.  Description.  Download  502 K
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