public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. it is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. for this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...

Background: Patients today interact with physicians, physician groups, and health plans, each of which may follow distinct ethical guidelines. Method: We systematically compared physician codes of ethics with ethics policies at physician group practices and health plans, using the 1998–99 policies of 38 organisations—18 medical associations (associations), nine physician group practices (groups...

BACKGROUND Patients today interact with physicians, physician groups, and health plans, each of which may follow distinct ethical guidelines. METHOD We systematically compared physician codes of ethics with ethics policies at physician group practices and health plans, using the 1998-99 policies of 38 organisations-18 medical associations (associations), nine physician group practices (groups...

A comprehensive Code of Ethics for the members of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is presented as the report of Task Group 109 which consolidates previous AAPM ethics policies into a unified document. The membership of the AAPM is increasingly diverse. Prior existing AAPM ethics polices were applicable specifically to medical physicists, and did not encompass other typ...

The question to be addressed in this paper is: How can the ethics of justice and the ethics of care be used complementary to each other in ethical decision making within the health care team? Various arguments are presented that justify the reasons that the ethics of justice and the ethics of care should be used complementary to each other for effective ethical decision making within the health...

The last fifteen years have witnessed a significant increase in investment in research ethics capacity development throughout the world. We examine nine research ethics training programs that are focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and supported by the US National Institutes of Health. We collected data from grants awards' documents and annual reports supplemented by questionnaires completed by the t...

As the public's health-care needs increase in complexity, renewed attention is being given to the ethical dimensions of public health decision-making and the development of public health ethics as a bounded area of teaching and research. This article provides an overview of approaches to public health ethics and decision-making, and suggests ways to incorporate the professionalism competencies ...

Ethics in Health Administration: A Practical Approach for Decision Makers (3rd ed.) is a four-section, 16-chapter book that provides health practitioners with practical applications to ethics in the health and helping professions. These applications provide health professionals with suggestions and recommendations to assist them with ethical issues and dilemmas.

1. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada 2. Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 3. Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H5, Canada 4. Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Universität Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 5. Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Unive...