Forum 2: Health Ethics
Balancing economics, policy, and justice: experiences in Europe and around the World

Health is a special good. Achieving “health for all” is a prime goal of all health policies. Yet, as one cannot expect a consensus to put all available resources into health care and healthy societal structures, it remains to be discussed what we owe to each other. This is an ethical question that frames this parallel forum. It will be discussed what policies are just and how to achieve social justice through health care and health priorities in all policies. It further asks whether ethics and economics necessarily exclude each other and what freedoms patients have and deserve.

Rapporteur: E Nolte, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

SESSION I: Challenges in health – The policy aspects
Wednesday 1 October, 15:00-18:00

Chair: G Andrejevs, Member of European Parliament
Co-Chair: I de Beaufort, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
Rapporteur: E Nolte, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Health for All – a rocky road in the EU 27 >>Download
M McKee, London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine

Challenges in health ethics: experiences and perspectives in Asia >>Download
KN Kuo, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Just health policy >>Download
D Gjorgjev, Director, Republic Institute of Health Protection, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Health policy priorities and sustainable health care >>Download
 YJ Sung, Deputy Minister of Health, Taiwan

The role of Ethics Advisory Bodies in Health Policy >>Download
A Weale, Chairman, Nuffield Council of Bioethics

Panel Discussion

Hosted by the Ministry of Health, Taiwan

Simultaneous Interpretation in English and German