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What is public health ethics?

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 By canprep
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Public health ethics is concerned with the ethical issues that arise when the aim is to protect and promote the health of populations (as opposed to individual patients). While these issues may be most commonly faced by public health professionals and policy makers, individual citizens are also faced with public health ethics challenges in their daily lives (e.g. should they vaccinate their child? Should they cycle rather then drive to work?).

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