Activism for health: An ethical obligation of public health practice

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Activism for health: An ethical obligation of public health practice

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Stagnating progress on public health issues such as child poverty has led to increasing calls for the public health workforce to change their mode of political engagement. This thesis explored one alternative method of political participation that is able to instigate the transformative changes necessary to advance population wellbeing: health activism. This thesis addressed two questions: ‘Do public health professionals have an ethical obligation to engage in health activism?’, and ‘How can ...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

Creator

Llewellyn, Rebecca

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/5917

Related subjects

Activism / solidarity / public health / reflexivity / social change

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