The assigned reading of this week was on chapter 10, titled Public health research ethic: Is non-exploitation the new principle for population based research ethics? The author begins defining public health research as to what the society do to assure the conditions in which we live are considered healthy. It goes over how the codes and principles of ethics were few until the 1980s, and the importance for setting morale and rules in conducting research. The author covers the Belmont Principles which are commonly known as Respect for Persons, Beneficence and Justice which help protect human rights in biomedical and behavioral research. Moreover, even though the Belmont principles should be applied in the public health research, the author goes
