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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... tobacco advertisements and was heavily addicted before cigarette warning labels made their appearance . The Florida jury , half of whose members currently smoked and one of whom was a former smoker , handed down a verdict in support of ...
... tobacco , diet , and exercise — all factors directly related to individ- ual behavior — were found to constitute the greatest causes of premature death . The two most rapidly increasing causes of mortality - sexual behavior and illicit ...
... tobacco still accounts for well over 400,000 deaths per year , leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to dub smoking " the most devastating cause of disease and premature death this country has ever seen . " " 25 Finally ...
... tobacco use by almost 46 percent.78 Similarly , in their first few years of operation , reductions in the speed limit to fifty - five and mandatory seat belt laws cut automobile fatalities by more than all the preceding years of ...
... tobacco that have included changing their policies on marketing , crop substitution , and smoking in the workplace , at the same time that they urge individuals to quit the habit . Efforts to stop the tobacco company sponsorship of ...
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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 |