Lotrean Lucia Maria, Trofor Antigona, Mihălţan Florin, Santillan Edna Arillo
Department of Hygiene, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu", Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Pneumologia. 2011 Apr-Jun;60(2):107-10.
School-based health education has the potential to inform and educate young people, in order to promote healthy behaviours among them, which will help to prevent diseases and social problems. The present study gives an overview of several ethical issues which must be considered in different phases of school-based smoking prevention programs. This will help health educators, public health professionals and researchers in their activity of health education in schools. The ethical issues must be taken into consideration during all the activities and refer to the involvement of officials, schools, parents, young people who participate into the program, authors and persons/institutions responsible with the implementation, evaluation or funding of the programs. The application into practice of these ethical principles, influence the quality of the health education, its acceptability BY the target group and the correctness of results. Also, it prevents possible problems and misunderstandings between persons and institutions involved in the health education and smoking prevention process, which could seriously affect and even destroy implementation of such health education activities.
以学校为基础的健康教育有潜力向年轻人提供信息并开展教育，以促进他们的健康行为，这将有助于预防疾病和社会问题。本研究概述了在以学校为基础的吸烟预防计划的不同阶段必须考虑的几个伦理问题。这将有助于健康教育工作者、公共卫生专业人员和研究人员在学校开展健康教育活动。在所有活动中都必须考虑伦理问题，这些问题涉及参与该计划的官员、学校、家长、年轻人、作者以及负责该计划实施、评估或资助的个人/机构。这些伦理原则在实践中的应用会影响健康教育的质量、目标群体对其的接受程度以及结果的正确性。此外，它还能防止参与健康教育和吸烟预防过程的个人和机构之间可能出现的问题和误解，而这些问题和误解可能会严重影响甚至破坏此类健康教育活动的实施。
