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Article: Codes of Conduct and Ethics Guidelines
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- Encyclopedia of Public Health
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CODES OF CONDUCT AND ETHICS GUIDELINES
Rules of conduct or ethical codes are often considered to be characteristic of professions, as opposed to craft and trade associations. They are particularly common within health care professions, where they set guidelines for how professionals should act in dealings with their patients and with each other in clinical care, in public health or epidemiological studies, and in experimental studies involving animals, humans, and social or population groups.
PURPOSES OF CODES AND GUIDELINES
Rules of conduct are enforced through ethics or professional conduct committees, which can impose sanctions such as withdrawal or suspension of professional group ...