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Mission: To make health a top priority for everyone in Northern Ireland.

Politics, ethics and health promotion (10)

Available from:
Central Health Promotion Resource Services.
Articles
Devolving health.
Rick Wilford and Robin Wilson explain what Northern Ireland's brief period of devolution reveals about the politics of health in the province.

Goodbye Health Promotion Wales - Hello National Assembly.
Mike Ponton explains how devolution in Wales has impacted on health promotion.

Mind the gap.
John Nicholson examines the key health issues facing the Labour government and considers how they have responded to them so far.

Ethics and public health policy.
Peter Duncan highlights some ethical issues relating to the formation of public health policy.

Conference papers: Politics, ethics and health promotion - meeting the challenge in practice.

Food and health behaviour inequalities: the emerging Ireland.
Sharon Friel explores how government policies can impact upon the population's eating habits.

Screening and health promotion: an ethical dilemma.
Ann Marie Coyne considers the ethics of the national breast and cervical cancer screening programmes.

Hitting the targets.
Elaine Mullan discusses the conflicts which can arise when funding is directly linked to health improvement targets.

Using mass media to promote health.
Catherine Murphy examines the ethical issues surrounding the use of mass media campaigns in health promotion.

Health information - who should take control?
Paul Cohen outlines a new Internet-based initiative in New Zealand which will make sharing health information easier.

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