Public health ethics

Using ethical theory and empirical analyses to determine and justify the right thing to do in public health, this paper distinguishes public health ethics from clinical ethics, research ethics, public health law and politics.  Public health ethics : informing better health practice, by Stacy M. Carter et al, discusses the issues in public health ethics including: how to weigh up the benefits, harms and costs of intervening; how to ensure that public health interventions produce fair outcomes; the potential for public health to undermine or promote the rights of citizens; and the significance of being transparent and inclusive in public health interventions.  
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, Vol. 23(6) 2012