Toward an ethic of empowerment for health promotion |
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Authors: | YEO MICHAEL |
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Institution: | Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values London, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper lays out a conceptual framework for articulatingsome main ethical issues raised by health promotion and illnessprevention. Building from the concept of enablingin the Ottawa Charter, the paper articulates and advocates anethic of empowerment for health promotion. If health promotion is understood in terms of enabling, thetired ethical debates between freedom and responsibility, orindividual and community, are recast in a new and more productivelight. Health promotion should resist the temptations of eithera coercive, paternalistic ethic or an individualistic, laissez-faireethic in favour of an ethic of enabling or empowerment. |
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Keywords: | health ethics empowerment |
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