HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: James Childress
14 Oct 2020
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Week 2 reading- public health ethics mapping the. 9:32 pm: james f. childress, et. al. Public health ethics: mapping the terrain journal of. Available at york university library web site: public health is primarily concerned with the health of the entire population, rather than the health of individuals. In measurement and analysis, the numerical public reflects the utilitarian view that each individual counts as one and only one. In this context, ethical analysis focuses on issues in measurement, many of which raise considerations of justice. For example, how should we define a population, how should we compare gains in life expectancy with gains in health-related quality of life, and whose values should be used in making those judgments? (2) People collectively, outside of government and with private funds, often have greater freedom to undertake public health interventions since they do not have to justify their actions to the political public (2)
