Bioethics overall has seen an explosion of interest in public health ethics, distinct from the more clinically-focused ethical questions that dominated the field in its early decades. In many ways, the central perspectives and current concerns of public health ethics were long anticipated by feminist health care movements and feminist bioethics. Public health ethics is concerned with the multiple activities of public health, carried out by a range of health professionals and agents, and is necessarily concerned with health inequities both nationally and globally, how they operate and how they can be minimized or eradicated in public health, but also crucially bringing a broader perspective that includes an interest in how these inequities come about in the first place. As Rogers notes,