Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced

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Author(s): Meryem Türkan Işık (Faculty of Nursing, Mersin University, Turkey)and Gülay Yıldırım (Department of History and Ethics, Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversty, Turkey)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 16
Source title: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Meliha Nurdan Taskiran (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)and Fatih Pinarbaşi (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch006

Keywords: Ethics & Law / Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics

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Abstract

Obesity is one of the health problems that threaten humanity considerably. In our country, considering the right to healthcare of each individual, earned by birth, they have a right to receive an equal and just healthcare. Obese individuals may suffer from negative attitudes of health professionals in providing protective health services and inpatient treatments. In this chapter, the aim was to draw attention to ethical conflicts between obese individuals and health professionals in the process of their healthcare and raise awareness of these problems.

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