European Information Network - Ethics in Medicine and Biotechnology
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| Date: | 18.09.2007, 12:00h to 20.09.2007, 15:30h |
| Location: | Ghent University
Faculty of Law
Universiteitstraat 4
9000 Gent
BELGIUM
Gent (Ghent) Belgien (Belgium) |
| Keywords: | Health care system/Health policy - Medical ethics |
| Details: | The promotion of health, both as a methodology and as a policy, has always been partly an ethical project. The past few decades the policy makers? attention has not only been attracted by morbidity and mortality data, but just as much by health inequalities. Therefore, reducing health disparities and assuring people the right to the highest attainable standard of health is nowadays considered as an absolute priority by local, national and supranational institutions. Despite the moral motivations the domain of health promotion practice is littered with ethical pitfalls. For instance, the structure of health promotion strategies is a possible threat to the autonomy of individuals. Furthermore, several health interventions can only succeed by means of coercion and it isn?t very clear whether or how the classical biomedical standard of informed consent could be applied in this particular context. Another domain where ethical analysis is required has to do with the numerous adverse and perverse side effects health promotion interventions can generate, viz. victim blaming, stigmatization, medicalization etcetera. This conference attempts to bring together scholars from both the fields of ethics and health promotion in order to identify and to examine the ethical issues that are at stake within the context of health promotion. |
| Organizer: | Institute of Law, Ethics & Society at Ghent University Department of Public Health at Ghent University Flemish Institute of Health Promotion |
| Contact: | Drs. Hans Donckers Address: Ghent University Institute of Law, Ethics & Society Universiteitstraat 4 9000 Ghent BELGIUM Tel: +32 - (0)9 - 2 64 97 13 Fax: +32 - (0)9 - 2 64 69 83 Email: hans.donckers@ugent.be |
| Webpage: | http://www.healthpromotionethics.eu/ |
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