{"id":1120,"date":"2009-01-28T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:41:45","slug":"beyond-the-nanny-state-stewardship-and-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the &#8216;nanny state&#8217;: Stewardship and public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nuffield Council on Bioethics set up an expert working party to examine the ethical issues surrounding public health in January 2006. The idea of a &#8216;nanny state&#8217; is often rejected, but the state has a duty to look after the health of everyone, and sometimes that means guiding or restricting people&#8217;s choices. On the other hand, the state must consider a number of principles when designing public health programmes, and justification is required if any of these principles are to be infringed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19135693?dopt=Abstract\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nuffield Council on Bioethics set up an expert working party to examine the ethical issues surrounding public health in January 2006. The idea of a &#8216;nanny state&#8217; is often rejected, but the state has a duty to look after the health of everyone, and sometimes that means guiding or restricting people&#8217;s choices. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}