Ethical, Social and Scientific Problems Related to the Application of Genetic Screening and Genetic Monitoring for Employees in the Context of an European Approach to Health and Safety at Work

Projektinformationen

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: CIPD940242

Startdatum 1 Mai 1995

Enddatum 31 August 1996

Finanziert unter

• Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and European non-member countries, 1992-

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KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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With respect to the ethical acceptability of health surveillance and selection practices, a different historical and cultural background and social and economic context might lead to different values being considered, and to these vaues being weighed up differently. A comparison of the attitudes towards current practices and future genetic testing in the European Economic Area (EEA) and in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) - societies which are currently undergoing rapid changes regarding the organisation of labour - would illustrate the possible role of the socio-economic background with respect to differences in public attitudes.
Given the increase in collaboration between the EEA and the CEEC, drawing up guidelines for elaborating a regulatory policy on this subject at an EEA level should not only contribute to preventing a widening of the gap in the approach to occupational health care between the different regions of the EEA and further divergence of their social security provisions, but also to more harmonisation in progress in the CEEC which have now adopted a similar political system.
Active discussion and research on the subject will be organised by means of:
- two seminars bringing together participants in the original project with scientists, social partners and authorities from the CEEC;
- different meetings of a steering group;
- some specific additional research activities.
This will result in a final report in which the results will be gathered in terms of the differences in accepting and acceptability of current and future practices in the field of medical selection and surveillance and the identification of explanatory variables for any possible differences. This should lead to an analysis which allows all parties concerned to have a broader and deeper insight into the subject and which could be used by regulatory authorities working on guidelines.

Programm/Programme

• IC-PECO/COPERNICUS - Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and European non-member countries, 1992-

Thema/Themen

• 0201 - CEEC participation in BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH programme

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

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Estonian Institute of Experimental & Clinical Medicine

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