A Taxonomy of Non-honesty in Public Health Communication.

IF 1.4 3区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Public Health Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1093/phe/phad003
Rebecca C H Brown, Mícheál de Barra
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This paper discusses the ethics of public health communication. We argue that a number of commonplace tools of public health communication risk qualifying as non-honest and question whether or not using such tools is ethically justified. First, we introduce the concept of honesty and suggest some reasons for thinking it is morally desirable. We then describe a number of common ways in which public health communication presents information about health-promoting interventions. These include the omission of information about the magnitude of benefits people can expect from health-promoting interventions, and failure to report uncertainty associated with the outcomes of interventions. Next we outline some forms of behaviour which are generally recognised by philosophers as being non-honest, including deception, manipulation, and so on. Finally, we suggest that many of the public health communicative practices identified earlier share features with the non-honest behaviours described and suggest this warrants reflection upon whether such non-honesty is justified by the goals of public health communication.

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本文探讨了公共卫生传播的伦理问题。我们认为,一些常见的公共卫生传播工具可能被认定为不诚实,并质疑使用这些工具是否在道德上是合理的。首先,我们介绍了诚实的概念,并提出了认为诚实在道德上是可取的一些原因。然后,我们描述了公共卫生传播提供有关健康促进干预措施信息的一些常见方式。这些问题包括缺乏有关人们可从促进健康的干预措施中预期获益程度的信息,以及未能报告与干预措施结果相关的不确定性。接下来,我们将概述一些被哲学家普遍认为是不诚实的行为形式,包括欺骗、操纵等等。最后,我们认为,之前确定的许多公共卫生传播实践与所描述的不诚实行为具有共同特征,并建议这值得反思,这种不诚实是否符合公共卫生传播的目标。
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Public Health Ethics
Public Health Ethics PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-MEDICAL ETHICS
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