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Health Promotion and Ethics

. What ought we to be doing?What actions are right or wrong?A clear definition of health might be usefulNHS 's aim might be thought to do with health care provisionNeed a clear definition of health to assess thisTo distinguish health care from social care. . Philosophical reasons for wanting a

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Health Promotion and Ethics

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    1. Health Promotion and Ethics

    2. What ought we to be doing? What actions are right or wrong? A clear definition of health might be useful NHS 's aim might be thought to do with health care provision Need a clear definition of health to assess this To distinguish health care from social care

    3. Philosophical reasons for wanting an account of health Philosophers love clarity How is health related to disease and illness? Is somebody healthy a factual question? Are you healthy or not depend on your decision, feelings, desires? Is it for society to decide as a whole what constitutes health?

    4. The issue of what health is, has vital ethical implications Question might not be, but the answer very likely to be “Health is a good thing, which ought to be promoted” Actions taken by health care workers that promote health are morally good actions

    5. Health definitions - WHO "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease;" Confusion of health and welfare Is anyone healthy? Motivational reasons

    6. Health definitions - Seedhouse 'A person's health is equivalent to the state of the set of conditions which fulfil or enable a person to work to fulfil his or her realistic chosen and biological potentials'. Personal involvement to shape health Different people talk about different things as being healthy Contributor factors which go towards a person's well being

    7. Health definitions - Illich 'Health is a task, and as such is not comparable to physiological balance of the beasts…Success is in large part the result of self-awareness, self-discipline and inner resources'. Focus on the individual Health under personal control/responsibility Health clearly more than absence of disease

    8. Healthy or not? A 6 year old with measles A 42 year old business woman with malaria A 28 year old who has been trying to conceive for six years A 19 year old with a fractured hip

    9. Healthy or not? A 22 year old suffering from morning sickness during pregnancy A 52 year old male, a diabetic since childhood, who complains of erectile dysfunction A 25 year old carrier of the sickle cell gene A 25 year old carrier of the Huntingdon's gene

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