Comité d'éthique de santé publique
The literature in public health ethics and other key documents exhibit a wide variety of values that offer many potential guides for assessing or orienting action. Among these many values, which ones are most relevant for conducting ethical analysis of public health actions? And are they valid for all public health interventions, or only some? How are these values defined?
This Framework of Values to Support Ethical Analysis of Public Health Actions was produced precisely to address these questions, some of which were clearly expressed by members of the Table de coordination nationale de santé publique (TCNSP) [A public health coordination body for Québec]. The values proposed here were selected based on not only research reported in the public health ethics literature, but also the experience of the Comité d’éthique de santé publique (CESP) [public health ethics committee], as well as the committee’s discussions with the members of the TCNSP. These values, in our view,…