Cent Eur J Public Health 2012, 20(2):95-100 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3729

Public Health Ethical Perspectives on the Values of the European Commission's White Paper "Together for Health"

Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Timo Clemens1, Kai Michelsen1, Tobias Schulte in den Bäumen2, Kristine Sørensen1, Glenn Borrett1, Helmut Brand1
1 Department of International Health, Maastricht University, School CAPHRI, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2 The European Law Institute, Wien, Austria

Background: In 2007 the European Commission issued the White Paper: "Together for Health". Considered the EU Health Strategy for the years 2008-2013, it offers the cornerstones for setting priorities in EU health actions.

Objectives: The public health framework offered in this strategy is explicitly built on shared values - including the overarching values of universality, access to good quality care, equity and solidarity that reacted to certain health care challenges within the EU. This article analyses the Health Strategy via its ethical scope and considers implications for future health policy making.

Methods: The Health Strategy and related documents are scrutinised to explore how the mentioned values are defined and enfolded. Additionally, scientific databases are searched for critical discussions of the value base of the Health Strategy. The results are discussed and reasoned from a public health ethical perspective.

Results: The Health Strategy is barely documented and discussed in the scientific literature. Furthermore, no attention was given to the value base of the Health Strategy. Our analysis shows that the mentioned values are particularly focussed on health care in general rather than on public health in particular. Besides this, the given values of the Health Strategy are redundant.

Conclusions: An additional consideration of consequentialist public health ethics values would normatively strengthen a population-based health approach of EU health policy making.

Klíčová slova: ethics, European Union, health policy, values, health strategy

Vloženo: 14. říjen 2011; Revidováno: 2. duben 2012; Přijato: 2. duben 2012; Zveřejněno: 1. červen 2012  Zobrazit citaci

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Schröder-Bäck P, Clemens T, Michelsen K, Schulte in den Bäumen T, Sørensen K, Borrett G, Brand H. Public Health Ethical Perspectives on the Values of the European Commission's White Paper "Together for Health". Cent Eur J Public Health. 2012;20(2):95-100. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3729. PubMed PMID: 22966730.
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