Skip Navigation


The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on August 23, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(6):542; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm087
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
17/6/542    most recent
ckm087v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Maeckelberghe, E. L. M.
Right arrow Articles by Schröder-Bäck, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Maeckelberghe, E. L. M.
Right arrow Articles by Schröder-Bäck, P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Public health ethics in Europe—let ethicists enter the public health debate

Els L. M. Maeckelberghe1 and Peter Schröder-Bäck2

1 Health Sciences/Medical Ethics, University Medical Centre Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 1, NL - 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
2 Landesinstitut für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst NRW /, Institute of Public Health NRW, Westerfeldstr. 35/37, D- 33611 Bielefeld, Germany

Correspondence: Dr. Els L.M. Maeckelberghe, Health Sciences/Medical Ethics, University Medical Centre Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 1, NL - 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands, tel.: +31 (0)50 363 79 85, fax.: +31 (0)50 363 30 59, e-mail: E.L.M.Maeckelberghe@med.umcg.nl

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Public health and ethics are undeniably bound together. Many people in public health even see the multidisciplinary public health as a moral endeavour: to protect the health of whole populations and to draw special attention to the weaker members of societies.1,2 Some of the challenges of the 21st century are: deciding what justice demands from Public . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?