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is an enactment of social justice. Social justice is in fact the foundational value of public health.

Madison Powers, Ruth Faden in their important book, Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health policy, defend a literal conjunction between public health and a type of public ethics (though they do not use the term 'public ethics'). Their argument claims that public health is inseparable from ethics and should be grounded in social justice. Indeed, they say that 'social justice is the foundational value for public health/'. In their discussion of an enactment of social justice, they also speak of multiple layers of responsibility belonging to different types of agents:

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