Titel: Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health 2010: “Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities”

Termin: 12.7.2010 bis 16.7.2010

Veranstaltungsort:
Brocher Foundation
Summer Academy in Global Population Health
Rte d’Hermance, 471, CP 70
1248 Hermance
Switzerland

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.brocher.ch/pages/programme.asp

Kurzbeschreibung: The Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health aims to introduce researchers, practitioners, and graduate students to population-level bioethics. The Academy hopes to stimulate high-level academic work on these issues and to bring them to the attention of those working in these fields. Our goal is to add ethical analysis and reasoning to the social and biological sciences as methods for the global project of relieving the burden of disease.

The 2010 Academy in Global Population Health will focus on “Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities”. A substantive focus will be given to the following topics:

· How should we rank distributions of health across populations in order of inequality?

· What are the ethical implications of using different measures of health inequalities?

· Which -if any- of the common measures of economic inequality are informative when applied to health?

· Are all health inequalities morally objectionable or unjust?

· Should we measure health inequalities across groups, across individuals, or both?

· What priority should reduction in health inequalities have among prominent goals of health policy?

Kontakt: Brocher Foundation
Summer Academy in Global Population Health
Rte d’Hermance, 471, CP 70
1248 Hermance
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 - 22 - 7 51 93 93
Fax: +41 - 22 - 7 51 93 91
scientificprog@brocher.ch
http://www.brocher.ch/

Veranstalter: Foundation Brocher, Harvard University - Programm in Ethics & Health, Université de Genève

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Samia Hurst (University of Geneva), Nir Eyal (Harvard University), Dan Wikler (Harvard University)

Schlagworte: Gesundheitswesen