Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?Daniel Callahan Georgetown University Press, 04/02/2000 - 192 من الصفحات The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior. The contributors raise profound questions about the role of the state or employers in trying to change health-related behavior, about the actual health and economic benefits of even trying, and about the freedom and responsibility of those of us who, as citizens, will be the target of such efforts. They ask, for instance, whether we are all equally free to live healthy lives or whether social and economic conditions make a difference. Do disease prevention programs actually save money, as is commonly argued? What is the moral legitimacy of using economic and other incentives to change people's behavior, especially when (as with HMOs) the goal is to control costs? One key issue explored throughout the book is the fundamental ambivalence of traditionally libertarian Americans about health promotion programs: we like the idea of good health, but we do not want government or others posing threats to our personal lifestyle choices. The contributors argue that such programs will continue to prove less than wholly successful without a fuller examination of their place in our national values. |
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... arguing about early drafts of those papers . Meredith Minkler's paper opens this collection by focusing on a question that must be pursued if there is to be any serious progress in health promotion and disease prevention : Just how free ...
... argues not only that it is a myth to think that money will be saved , but also that the health promotion movement is ... argue that an increase of tension can be expected between the idea that people should be held responsible for their ...
... argue that these programs are likely to be less than wholly successful unless they can be complemented by a fuller examination of their place in our national values and institutions . Personal Responsibility for Health : Contexts and ...
... arguing that Connor had been " lured into smoking " as a teenager by glamorous tobacco advertisements and was ... argued that " cigarette smoking is very much a matter of choice . " The personal responsibility verdict in this mid - 1997 ...
... argued , the seemingly simple premise that " individuals are responsible for their health " means very different things to different people . ' The self - help or holistic health advocate who calls for wresting control of one's health ...
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HELEN HALPIN SCHAUFFLER | 37 |
E HAAVI MORREIM | 56 |
ANN ROBERTSON | 76 |
RONALD LABONTE | 95 |
Finding | 137 |
MEREDITH MINKLER | 153 |
Contributors | 171 |