PHAR4823 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Outline Of Health Sciences, Primum Non Nocere, Scientific Method
23 Jul 2018
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Article 25. 1 of the universal declaration of human rights (1948) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services". The mandate to ensure and protect the health of the public is an inherently moral one. ". It carries with it an obligation to care for the well being of communities, and it implies the possession of an element of power to carry out that mandate. The need to exercise power to ensure the health of populations and, at the same time, to avoid abuses of such power are at the crux of public health ethics. Medical ethics and public health: medical institutions have been more explicit about the ethical elements of their practice than have public health institutions. Concerns of public health are not fully consonant with those of medicine.
