[afro-nets] Conference: Setting an ethical agenda for health promotion

["Claudio Schuftan" <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Conference: Setting an ethical agenda for health promotion
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18-20 September 2007
Ghent, Belgium

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS:
CONFERENCE: SETTING AN ETHICAL AGENDA FOR HEALTH PROMOTION 

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 data regarding morbidity and mortality, 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 these ethical motivations the domain of health promotion practice is littered with ethical pitfalls: victim blaming, paternalism, healthism, imposing a conception of 'the good life', coercion, the use of marketing strategies, lack of consent, etc. 

This conference intends 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. 

Confirmed keynotes: Norman Daniels (Harvard), David McQueen (CDC & IUPHE), Nancy Kass (Johns Hopkins), Angus Dawson (Keele), Marcel Verweij (Utrecht), Maurice Mittelmark (Bergen), Ronald Bayer (Columbia).

Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2007

For more information visit www.healthpromotionethics.eu 

This conference is co-sponsored by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, IUHPE. 

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Hans Donckers 
mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn