Given the role of policy and government in public health, the role of political philosophy likely has a substantial place as we seek a coherent system of ethical justification in our work. The aim here is not to align with one theoretical approach or another, rather, to consider the ...
and institutions involved emphasize the prevention of disease and the health needs of the population as a whole. Public health activities change with changing technology and values, but the goals remain the same: to reduce the amount of disease, premature death and disability in the population (La...
Surveys of public values rarely deliver unanimity, and preference heterogeneity, or plurality, is to be expected. Methods This paper examines the role of public values in health policy and how to elicit, analyse, and present values, in the face of plurality. We delineate the strengths and ...
In the public health domain, the idea of what counts as a risk has a dynamic nature. Risk from the public health policy point of view may not be a risk for an individual. Dean argues that epidemiological risk forms a “long-standing and pervasive form of risk rationality.” In his words...
Blending philosophy of science/medicine, public health ethics and history, this book offers a framework that explains, analyses and largely endorses the features that define this relatively new field. Presenting a philosophical perspective, Valles helps to clarify what these features are and why...
Funding/Support: Dr Shi is supported by grant 21BRK021 from the National Social Science Foundation Project of China and grant 21NDJC013Z from the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project. The Nurses’ Health Study was supported by grants AG13482, AG15424, CA40356, an...
In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) ...
Health literacy is closely related to health status. Measuring public health literacy levels helps to warn of health status and manage health problems through timely interventions. The items of relevant evaluation tools are complex and numerous in China,
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Currently, the vast majority (88%) of U.S. public libraries are chartered to serve populations of 50,000 or less, and more than half of all public libraries have legal service areas of less than 10,000 (Pearlmutter & Nelson, 2011). Though mostly similar in service philosophy to their ...