Ethical Considerations in Public Health. 

Catalog description

This course examines ethical issues related to public health practice, policy, and research. Questions of autonomy, liberty, individual rights, power, coercion, social justice, discrimination, stigma, community, paternalism, and the common good are the basis of ethical challenges in public health. Public health ethical considerations in health promotion, health policy, healthcare, and issues of safety where people work, live and play will be the focus both domestically and globally. Students will develop an analytical methodology to apply to public health work.