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Individual Rights and the Public’s Health: Constitutional, Ethical, …

(3 days ago) WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought the tension between individual rights and the public good to the forefront of the national discourse. Many pandemic response measures—such as stay-at-home orders, mandatory business closures or restrictions, …

https://www.networkforphl.org/news-insights/individual-rights-and-the-publics-health-constitutional-ethical-and-political-aspects-of-covid-19-measures-and-their-enforcement/

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The continuing tensions between individual rights and public …

(3 days ago) WebBiggs was but the most articulate of the new cadre of public health officials who endorsed authoritarian attitudes in the name of public health; the often abysmal health situations in the rapidly growing cities of the USA and Europe required drastic measures, and public health officials were given the freedom to meet the problems with what, at times, were heavy …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267241/

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Ensuring Rights while Protecting Health: The …

(5 days ago) WebThis paper provides a global overview of COVID-19 public health policy interventions implemented from January 1 to June 30, 2020, and identifies their impacts on the human rights of marginalized …

https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/10/ensuring-rights-while-protecting-health-the-importance-of-using-a-human-rights-approach-in-implementing-public-health-responses-to-covid-19/

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Individual Freedom in the Initial Response to Covid-19 - PMC

(3 days ago) WebAbstract. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a phenomenal challenge to global health care and will continue to be so in the upcoming months. Beyond its medical toll, COVID-19 has also exacerbated pre-existing social issues and created new inequalities. This has generated a series of ethical problems that will need to be carefully analyzed to …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9203881/

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Individual Freedom or Public Health? A False Choice in …

(2 days ago) WebBut there is a deeper, more insidious culprit—and that is the false choice between public health and individual freedom. It is only once …

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/individual-freedom-or-public-health-a-false-choice-in-the-covid-era/

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Individual Liberty, Public Health, and the Battle for the …

(4 days ago) WebAs the Jacobson court said, a “society based on the rule that each one is a law unto himself would soon be confronted with disorder and anarchy.”. Public health law’s battle for the nation’s soul is the fight for …

https://www.theregreview.org/2021/06/07/burris-individual-liberty-public-health-battle-for-nations-soul/

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Mediating tensions between public health and individual rights

(5 days ago) WebB Toebes, Mediating tensions between public health and individual rights, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 30, Issue Supplement_5, September 2020, ckaa165.044, For example: extensive quarantines to curb the spread of an infectious disease may restrict freedom of movement; the introduction of compulsory vaccination …

https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/30/Supplement_5/ckaa165.044/5914091

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The false choice between public health and civil liberties

(5 days ago) WebWhile the relationship between public health and economic activity is complex, these arguments in favor of civil liberties presume that freedom and public health cannot coexist during a crisis. The protests …

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/6297

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Balancing public health and civil liberties in times of pandemic

(3 days ago) WebThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic constitutes not only a danger for public health, but may also threaten civil liberties. Looking at the examples of recent events in Poland and Hungary, the authors argue that governments may misuse pandemic for their political advantage, thus endangering public health. Political decisions taken to stem the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812333/

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Balancing Individual Rights, Public Health During a Pandemic

(8 days ago) WebBalancing public health with individual rights can be difficult during a global pandemic, when efforts to stop the spread of disease may infringe upon personal freedoms. Over the last several months, the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic has become a real-time case study for scientists and students in many fields, particularly public health.

https://healthsciences.arizona.edu/connect/stories/balancing-individual-rights-public-health-during-pandemic

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Yes, government can restrict your liberty to protect public health

(8 days ago) WebOp-Ed: Yes, the government can restrict your liberty to protect public health. Demonstrators oppose stay-at-home orders during a rally last week at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Despite such

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/government-can-restrict-your-liberty-to-protect-public-health-courts-have-made-that-clear

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Individual Rights vs. Public Health: The Vaccination Debate - MIT

(9 days ago) WebAngles / Individual Rights vs. Public Health: The Vaccination Debate by Mahesh Vidula. Mahesh Vidula is a member of the MIT Class of 2011 majoring in Biological Engineering. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In high school and at MIT, Mahesh developed an interest in public health and medical technologies.

http://web.mit.edu/angles/2010_Mahesh_Vidula.html

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Public Health and Respect for Personal Autonomy

(4 days ago) WebAs medicine increasingly recognizes individual rights, it is a logical extension for public health as a discipline to acknowledge analogous rights. In bioethics, consent is rooted in the ethical principle of respect for personal autonomy, but this principle is complex and limited in application. Childress in “The Place of Autonomy in

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/philosophy316/2014/02/24/public-health-and-respect-for-personal-autonomy/

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Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions - Wiley …

(9 days ago) Webindividual freedom and health in restrictive public health policy. First, freedom and health might be taken to be incommensurable. When I say that two things are incommensurable, here, I follow Ruth Chang's notion of incommensurability and mean that they ‘cannot be precisely measured by some common scale of units of ‘value’.2 This is

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bioe.13217

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The One vs the Many: When Public Health Conflicts with Individual

(7 days ago) WebPublic health is quite different from traditional healthcare. Whereas healthcare involves medical interventions between health professionals and individual patients, the field of public health attempts to maintain the health of a population. Rather than health of a person, the objective in public health interventions is “breaking the chain …

https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2020/05/the-one-vs-the-many-when-public-health-conflicts-with-individual-rights/

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Human Rights in Times of COVID-19: Public Safety vs. Individual …

(5 days ago) WebThe tension between the authority of governments to impede on individual rights in times of public emergencies and the implications for human rights is a topic that has come into focus as the world reels from the impacts of COVID-19. Dr. Zaretsky discussed the way that partisan division and hostility are shaping this conversation around

https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2020/05/29/human-rights-in-times-of-covid-19-public-safety-vs-individual-liberty/

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Balancing individual freedom with public order and safety: lesson

(3 days ago) WebA high-level overview of how the Supreme Court has balanced claims of individual liberty against laws promoting public order and safety. When deciding cases, the Supreme Court attempts to promote public safety while also protecting individual rights. This proves to be harder in some cases than others. Difficult cases involve issues such as the

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-government-and-civics/us-gov-civil-liberties-and-civil-rights/us-gov-balancing-individual-freedom-with-public-order-and-safety/a/lesson-summary-balancing-individual-freedom-with-public-order-and-safety

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Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines versus Personal Freedoms: An …

(3 days ago) WebIt is also difficult to argue that personal freedom is superior to the health and well-being of another individual if a risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 exists. Such an attitude might be perceived as selfish. At the same time, there needs to be flexibility, respect, and understanding of both sides of the vaccination argument.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9358328/

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Writing Diagnostic: Personal Freedom vs. Public Health

(3 days ago) WebThink about the conflict between public health and individual freedom and write a well-developed essay of 500-600 words in which you present your perspective on which of the two is more important to you and why. Be sure to analyze and evaluate your evidence and support your position with examples from your own experience, observation, and/or

https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=pandemic-pandemonium-prompts

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The continuing tensions between individual rights and public …

(9 days ago) WebBiggs was but the most articulate of the new cadre of public health officials who endorsed authoritarian attitudes in the name of public health; the often abysmal health situations in the rapidly growing cities of the USA and Europe required drastic measures, and public health officials were given the freedom to meet the problems with what, at

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/sj.embor.7401134

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How to Talk About Freedom During a Pandemic - The Atlantic

(7 days ago) WebIn response to these vehement appeals to individual freedom, public-health leaders in London, Liverpool, Manchester and elsewhere developed a powerful counterargument.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/freedom-pandemic-19th-century/611800/

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Public health, conflict and human rights: toward a collaborative

(5 days ago) WebAlthough epidemiology is increasingly contributing to policy debates on issues of conflict and human rights, its potential is still underutilized. As a result, this article calls for greater collaboration between public health researchers, conflict analysts and human rights monitors, with special emphasis on retrospective, population-based …

https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-1505-1-11

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