The continuing tensions between individual rights and public health

The continuing tensions between individual rights and public health. Talking Point on public health versus civil liberties.

[Tuberculosis and public health: ¿individual rights or collective rights?].

Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a major public health problem in our country. The appearance of resistant strains has complicated its control and questioned the appropriateness of the current measures towards prevention and control. An analysis from social determinants related to TB, converge on irregular treatment that generates disease persistence and appearance of resistance to TB drugs. The o...

Human rights and the new public health.

The exciting and rapidly advancing dialogue between health and human rights is helping to define more clearly the challenges and perspectives of a new approach to public health. Public health has a complex intellectual and operational history, within which there is a long and respected tradition of understanding health as linked with various social realities, expressed or analyzed through occup...

The mandatory census: tension between individual rights and the public good.

The discontinuation of the Canadian long-form mandatory census presents a crisis for data users. Examined as a tension between the need to preserve individual civil liberties and the need to curtail those liberties for the public good, the census crisis presents an opportunity for a public discussion on the specifics of our national values, beliefs and expectations.

Tensions in public health policy: patient engagement, evidence-based public health and health inequalities.

This paper examines the proposition that there are considerable tensions between key strategies in health policy--namely, evidence-based approaches to population health improvement, reduction of health inequalities, and public and patient engagement--using (1) a critical analysis of the intersection of evidence-based public health, patient and public engagement, and health inequalities policies...