%0 Book Section
%@ 9780729538909
%A Gould, Trish
%B Introduction to Public Health
%C Sydney, Australia
%D 2009
%E Fleming, Mary-Lou
%E Parker, Elizabeth
%F quteprints:32928
%I Elsevier Australia
%K Public Health
%K Ethics
%K Advocacy
%K Human Rights
%K Bioethics
%P 143-164
%T Ethics and public health
%U https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32928/
%X Note: see later edition of this work at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47632/    This chapter introduces you to the basic ethical principles that underpin public health practice. The themes to be considered in this chapter include: the characteristics of ‘ethics’, the justification for reflecting on ethics and values, the foundations of public health ethics, whether and how we can incorporate ethics and values into our practice and the nature of some of the potential ethical complications of public health practice.