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Apr 6, 2012 · Recently the Report of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO on Social Responsibility and Health has addressed this concept of social responsibility in the context of health care delivery suggesting a new paradigm in hospital governance.
- Cristina Brandão, Guilhermina Rego, Ivone Duarte, Rui Nunes
- 10.1007/s10728-012-0206-3
- 2013
- Health Care Anal. 2013; 21(4): 390-402.
- Education and Lifestyle
- Media and Information
- Professionals and Research
- Global Market
- International Cooperation
Illiteracy, together with poverty, is a factor that undermines individuals’ capacity to cope with the natural vulnerability to diseases that humankind is heir to, making it at the same time more difficult for them to protect themselves from the risks spread in their living and working environment. By establishing quality educational infrastructure ...
The media play a decisive role in knowledge dissemination. They have become one of the most important – for many people, the only – source of information. Therefore, professionals in this sector can help a lot to improve people’s sensitivity to health-related issues, trigger serious debate about the most relevant challenges, and give to experts and...
Health-related business is a legitimate economic activity. Notwithstanding, it deals with the very first of all human rights and is therefore exposed not just to the risk of a conflict of interests but to the risk of jeopardizing life itself. Focus on the care and well-being of patients is the crucial calling of all physicians according to their co...
The concept of social responsibility was first introduced to strengthen the accountability of economic actors. The premise is the impossibility of thinking of the economy as a monadic and thus exclusively self-oriented activity. Companies themselves – according to Joseph Stiglitz – are communities of people working together with a common purpose an...
The cosmopolitan version of the concept of solidarity, rooted in the experience of living in one and the same world, is presupposed by the principle of sharing the benefits of scientific development as expressed in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, even though this assumption does not and cannot claim that all d...
- semplici@lettere.uniroma2.it
Jun 24, 2019 · Lifestyle-induced diseases are becoming a burden on healthcare, actualizing the discussion on health responsibilities. Using data from the National Association for Heart and Lung Diseases (LHL)’s 2015 Health Survey (N = 2689), this study examined the public’s attitudes towards personal and social health responsibility in a Norwegian ...
- Gloria Traina, Pål Erling Martinussen, Eli Feiring
- 2019
Aug 12, 2011 · The contributions collected in this section deal with some of the most crucial issues addressed in the Report on “Social Responsibility and Health” of the International Bioethics Committee: the importance of ‘social responsibility’ in the promotion of health, i.e. far beyond the context of the ethics of management and private companies where the term was introduced at first; the role ...
- Stefano Semplici
- semplici@lettere.uniroma2.it
- 2011
Mar 9, 2019 · Definition. Social responsibility is a duty borne by every individual and organization to be accountable for the impact they have on the environment and the well-being of others. It is an ethical framework that outlines the obligation for every entity to act for the benefit of society at large.
- harmer.c@husky.neu.edu
May 17, 1988 · As medical ethicist Daniel Wikler6 has argued, the seemingly simple premise. "individuals are responsible for their health" means very different things to. ple. The self-help or holistic health advocate who calls for taking control of back from the traditional medical establishment thus is likely to hold a very.
While ensuring access to healthcare is an important social responsibility, societies can promote health in many other ways, such as through sanitation, pollution control, food and drug safety, health education, disease surveillance, urban planning and occupational health.
