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Ethical Implications of a Global, Ecological Approach to Public Health

Barbara C. Thornton, PhD, Department of Health Ecology, University of Nevada, MS 274, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, (775) 784-4041, thornton@unr.edu and Deborah Ballard-Reisch, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Health Ecology/ 274, Reno, NV 89557-0036.

Purpose: Ethically public health must be considered within an ecological framework that acknowledges the dynamic, interrelated, multi-layered context within which public health is negotiated is the basis of the IOM 2002 report. This paper advances a model based on Ballard-Reisch and Thornton (1996) framework that examines the ethical implications of a global, ecological model of public health.

Method: Through the development of a global, ecological model of public health, this paper advances

Learning Objectives: Participants will

Keywords: Ethics, Hawaiian Natives

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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Community Research and Environmental Justice

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA