Personal Public Service Ethics as a Public Servant

Developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach

Purpose: Citizen-centered government agencies are a prototype of new public service approach which, in effect, calls for citizenship orientation of state-owned agencies. This study aimes at developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach.  Methodology: To realize this purpose, the main themes of the main subject of the study were identified u...

Creational Ethics is Public Ethics

Public Health and Public Health Ethics*

Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in association with powerful globalizing forces that there has been a recrudescence of int...

Towards public health ethics

Health is a value, both objective and subjective, yet it is not the only value that contributes to the well-being of persons. In public health, there are different connotations of the term "public" relevant from an ethical perspective: population, government action, and collective action of the community. Ethics seeks to provide a basis for and justify moral decisions and actions. Ethics asks, ...

Teaching public health ethics

Teaching public health ethics has been recognised as patchy and somewhat theoretically incoherent for some years. Despite Beauchamp and Childress' work being widely known and used within health care its various principles have been criticised by a number of writers for, among other things, their inherent cultural relativism. This article suggests how a broader ethically oriented approach to the...