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January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 7
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS: THE PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIETY RESPONDS

Terry Brandenburg, MBA, MPA, James Guillory, DO, MPH, Alan Melnick, MD, MPH, James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD and Clayton Williams, MPH

The authors are affiliated with the Public Health Leadership Society. Terry Brandenburg is with the West Allis Health Department, West Allis, Wis. James Guillory is with the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Kansas City, Mo. Alan Melnick is with Clackamas County, Ore, and the joint residency program in family/preventive medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, Portland. James C. Thomas is with the Department of Epidemiology and the Program in Public Health Ethics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Clayton Williams is with the Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Orleans.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Clayton Williams, MPH, Public Health Leadership Society, 1600 Canal St, Suite 501, New Orleans, LA 70112 (e-mail: cwilliams@lphi.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

The Public Health Leadership Society (PHLS) would like to thank Lear for his thoughtful comments on the Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health (more commonly known as the Public Health Code of Ethics).1 As the organization that led the development of the code, PHLS is pleased to respond to Lear’s comments by clarifying how we arrived at the present version. The code emerged as a result of our profound respect for the rights of individuals in the communities we serve and our enduring commitment to assuring the public’s health.

Development of the code was initiated and led by . . . [Full Text]


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