Public Health and Individual Liberty

An overview of public health in the new millenium: individual liberty vs. public safety.

Quarantine redux: bioterrorism, AIDS and the curtailment of individual liberty in the name of public health.

Snakes and ladders: state interventions and the place of liberty in public health policy.

In this paper I outline and explore some problems in the way that the Nuffield Council of Bioethics' report Public Health: Ethical Issues (2007) presents its 'Intervention Ladder'. They see the metaphor of a ladder both as capturing key normative priorities and as making a real and important contribution to ethical policymaking in public health. In this paper I argue that the intervention ladde...

Twitter and Public Health (Part 1): How Individual Public Health Professionals Use Twitter for Professional Development

BACKGROUND The use of social networking sites is increasingly being adopted in public health, in part, because of the barriers to funding and reduced resources. Public health professionals are using social media platforms, specifically Twitter, as a way to facilitate professional development. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify public health professionals using Twitter and t...

Public health and the power of individual action.

Correspondence to: K Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH, Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA; Michael.Cummings@ roswellpark.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D ramatic changes in smoking behaviour occurred over the half century since cigarette smoking was ...