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  • Public Health Ethics
  • Health Policy Analysis
  • Bioethics

Background:

  • Public health practice presents unique ethical challenges distinct from biomedical ethics.
  • Existing public health ethics (PHE) frameworks lack a practical integration of normative criteria and methodological application.
  • A need exists for a structured approach to guide ethical decision-making in public health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a systematic ethical framework for public health (PH) professionals.
  • To integrate normative ethical criteria with a structured methodological approach for PH interventions.
  • To enhance the quality and evidence-based nature of ethical analysis in PH.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a systematic ethical framework based on a coherentist model of ethical justification.
  • Incorporated five substantive ethical criteria and seven procedural conditions for fair decision-making.
  • Outlined a six-step methodological approach for applying the framework to PH practice and health policy.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework offers an explicit normative foundation and a structured methodological process.
  • It explicitly links ethical analysis with empirical evidence, promoting evidence-based PHE.
  • The framework provides guidance for analyzing and assessing ethical considerations in PH interventions.

Conclusions:

  • The developed framework offers a practice-oriented approach to public health ethics.
  • It aims to guide professionals, policymakers, and affected populations in ethical assessment of PH interventions.
  • Further evaluation of its practical application is needed to confirm its effectiveness in assuring ethical quality in PH.