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November 2006, Vol 96, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1903-1905
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.099606


EDITORIAL

Human Rights and Ethics in Public Health

Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA and Bernard Dickens, PhD, LLD

Sofia Gruskin is with the Program on International Health and Human Rights and the Department of Population and International Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Mass. Bernard Dickens is with the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, 1-1202, Boston, MA 021115 (e-mail: sgruskin@hsph.harvard.edu).

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


    INTRODUCTION
 
Dedication of this issue of the Journal to the theme of "Rights and Ethics" complements this month’s Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association, titled "Public Health and Human Rights," and highlights the congruence of inclusion of both human rights norms and ethical standards in public health work. Historically, the promotion and protection of human rights as embodied in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights1 draws upon human rights principles, including those on the health and well-being of populations, to which many nations were already committed. Similarly, ethical conduct in health care can be traced . . . [Full Text]


    DEFINITIONAL ISSUES
 

    MOVING FORWARD
 

    COMING TOGETHER
 



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