2024

Ethics and Public Health

Name: Ethics and Public Health
Code: FIL13059M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To know the meanings of Ethics, Bioethics and Public Health Ethics
To be able to discriminate the ethical values applicable to "One Health Only", conceptualize situations and define their theoretical and legal framework and demonstrate their applicability in concrete situations, both in research and in social reality

Contents

Genesis of Public Health Ethics
Ethics and the Law
Bioethics
Data protection and confidentiality
Ethics in Public Health Research
Precaution, Prevention and Ethics of Public Health
Ethics in Global Health
Ethics in "One Health", Public Environmental, Animal and Human Health

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes; discussion of cases, Group work

Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )

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