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Bioethical Reflections on the UN 2030 Agenda and its Repercussions for Teachers' Health

  • Ivaní Nadir CarlottoEmail author
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
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Abstract

The goal of this study was to identify connections between bioethical principles, the goals set by the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the foundations for health promotion (HP), particularly when applied to university professors. In its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3—“to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”—the 2030 Agenda allows for a reflection on the connections between bioethics and HP. Bioethics and HP both value the interactions between and focus on individuals and, in this approach, the drawing of connections between these topics and the 2030 Agenda presents itself represents a way to stimulate and develop useful measures involving health, well-being, quality of life, and happiness. The results suggest that concepts such as respect for personal dignity, care, protection, sustainable actions, prosperity, peace, partnership, and solidarity were reported by professors surveyed on these topics, with impact on seeking health-related measures able to promote individual and collective well-being, quality of life, inclusion and social justice, principle which are related to bioethics and HP, and the foundations of which are clearly correlated with the 2030 Agenda.

Keywords

UN 2030 agenda Bioethics Health promotion Higher education Sustainable development 
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  • Ivaní Nadir Carlotto
    • 1
    Email author
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
    • 1
  1. 1.Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP)PortoPortugal

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