# Public Health Ethics - Cases Spanning the Globe

- By: Drue H. Barrett, Angus Dawson & Leonard W. Ortmann
- Publisher: University of Sydney & CDC
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- Licence: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Broadly speaking, public health ethics helps guide practical decisions affecting population or community health based on scientific evidence and in accordance with accepted values and standards of right and wrong. In these ways, public health ethics builds on its parent disciplines of public health and ethics. Public health ethics shares with other fields of practical and professional ethics both the general theories of ethics and a common store of ethical principles, values, and beliefs.