Modelling sexually transmitted infections: less is usually more for informing public health policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Regan ◽  
David P. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Sexually Transmitted

John Stuart Mill’s Legacy for Public Health Ethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-318
Author(s):  
James F. Childress
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Health Policy And Practice

This chapter shows that the legacy of John Stuart Mill’s ethical framework for public health is far more complex and interesting than his On Liberty suggests, even when that classic work is properly understood. A largely neglected resource in Mill’s thought for public health is the ethical framework he actually used, in public testimony and correspondence, to address a heated controversy about the British government’s efforts in the Contagious Diseases Acts to reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. This displays his fuller range of ethical principles for public health, the way he resolved conflicts among those principles, and his somewhat surprising reluctance to endorse what we now call “harm-reduction measures,” which utilitarians, though not Mill, generally find justifiable in public health policy and practice.

Public Health: Policy and Politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Baggott ◽  
David J Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy

Fat, Stigma, and Public Health Policy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Crimin ◽  
Carol T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Fat Stigma
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