Public health and human values.
The ends and means of public health activities are suggested to be at odds with the values held by human individuals and communities. Although promoting longer lives in better health for all seems like an endeavour that is obviously acceptable, it can be challenged by equally self-evident appeals to autonomy, happiness, integrity and liberty, among other values. The result is that people's actual concerns are not always adequately dealt with by public health measures and assurances.
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Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, The University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. matti.hayry@helsinki.fi
D028663:Ethical Theory; D005610:Freedom; D006240:Happiness; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011057:Politics; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000941:ethics; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics*; D012945:Social Values; D009626:Terminology as Topic