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How To Think About Health Promotion Ethics, Stacy M. Carter, Alan Cribb, John P. Allegrante
How To Think About Health Promotion Ethics, Stacy M. Carter, Alan Cribb, John P. Allegrante
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Health promotion ethics is moral deliberation about health promotion and its practice. Although academics and practitioners have been writing about ethics, and especially values, in health promotion for decades, health promotion ethics is now regaining attention within the broader literature on public health ethics. Health promotion is difficult to define, and this has implications for health promotion ethics. Health promotion can be approached in two complementary ways: as a normative ideal, and as a practice. We consider the normative ideal of health promotion to be that aspect of public health practice that is particularly concerned with the equity of social …