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

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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

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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]


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