Justice in Health Care – Values in Conflict

Bruxelles Woluwe

2017 EACME Annual Conference

September 7-9, 2017

Barcelona, Spain

The oldest bioethics centre in Europe, the Borja Institute of Bioethics-Ramon Llull University, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the 2017 EACME Annual Conference. Recent developments in various countries in Europe, like for example austerity measures, lead to concerns about the conflict between justice in health care with various other, economic and political, values. That is why we wish to discuss the following topics with you:

- Determinants of Health

  • What does health mean? Looking beyond WHO definition
  • Lifestyles and health
  • Quality of life
  • Social expectations and medicalisation of life
  • Salutogenesis and health-promotion activities

- Healthcare Systems: at the Service of What?

  • Ethical issues in different models of Healthcare Systems
  • Sustainability
  • The role of Primary Care in health systems
  • Ethics issues in research with big data
  • Designing future healthcare systems

- Justice and Vulnerability

  • Social inequalities in health
  • Mental health care
  • Care for people with disability
  • Childcare, Elderly care
  • End-of-life care

- The Role of Professionals and Research

  • Professionalism and decision-making
  • Effects of austerity measures on health care
  • Quaternary prevention
  • The clinician as a manager of resources
  • Continued education
  • Responsibility and integrity in research

http://www.eacmeweb.com/2017-eacme-annual-conference-barcelona-spain.html

Publié le 27 janvier 2017