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Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account … impulses that animate public health: to advance human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by focusing on … controversies in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that public health agencies guided by a robust …
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health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to … healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public …
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The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to …
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Background Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide quality healthcare services and safeguard the population … from the fnancial burden of catastrophic health expenditure. Its primary objectives are to improve longevity and enhance …) and explores whether public health programs can reduce social inequality. By employing SWB inequality as a measure, we go …
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This paper evaluates the contraceptive mandate as a public health initiative. It applies two fairly standard analytical … frameworks used to scrutinize public health ethics, policy, and law issues. The first is a framework for analyzing public health … ethics and deliberating about public health activities offered by a team of bioethicists and public health law and policy …
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This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …
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In this article, we discuss the public health provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We … first set forth a framework to identify the key reforms that are needed for a robust public health system. These include … would make significant investment in public health (especially in wellness and prevention programs), it does little to …
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therefore a relevant justificatory claim for other domains of health care. Taking the controversial Abigail Alliance for Better … response presents an alternative theoretical approach to the question of rights to health and health care, arguing that a right … to health care need not, indeed cannot, be framed in an absolute libertarian framework of wholly individualistic rights …
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analysis is provided to showcase which regions are leading in the health facilities in the world in general and Africa in …This exploratory study aims to assess Africa's lagging position in global heath in relation to some health care … SDG-3 on health and wellbeing. Moreover, corresponding inferences suggest that the continent is unprepared for future …
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analysis is provided to showcase which regions are leading in the health facilities in the world in general and Africa in …This exploratory study aims to assess Africa’s lagging position in global heath in relation to some health care … SDG-3 on health and wellbeing. Moreover, corresponding inferences suggest that the continent is unprepared for future …
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