A public health ethics exploration of a novel mobile health application for public health surveillance

Ethics in public health surveillance.

Public health programmes pose some very important ethical problems. One of the most pressing is the possible conflict between individual interests (and rights) and collective interests, which becomes particularly important in the public health surveillance setting. The present article first looks at the definitions of "public health surveillance" in a historical context and then identifies the ...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

letter to the editor does not have abstract.

Public Health and Public Health Ethics*

Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in association with powerful globalizing forces that there has been a recrudescence of int...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

A code of ethics for public health.