Ethics in Design and Implementation of Technologies for Workplace Health Promotion: A Call for Discussion.

Autor:	Roossien CC; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands., de Jong M; Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands., Bonvanie AM; Department of Operations, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands., Maeckelberghe ELM; Wenckebach Institute for Medical Education and Training, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in digital health [Front Digit Health] 2021 Aug 20; Vol. 3, pp. 644539. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 20 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fdgth.2021.644539
Abstrakt:	Aim: This study aims to initiate discussion on the ethical issues surrounding the development and implementation of technologies for workplace health promotion. We believe this is a neglected topic and such a complex field of study that we cannot come up with solutions easily or quickly. Therefore, this study is the starting point of a discussion about the ethics of and the need for policies around technologies for workplace health promotion. Method: Based on a literature review, the present study outlines current knowledge of ethical issues in research, development, and implementation of technologies in the workplace. Specifically, the focus is on two ethical issues that play an important role in the worker-employer relation: privacy and autonomy. Application: Two cases indicative for a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing and evaluating sensor and intervention technologies that contribute to keeping ageing workers healthy and effectively employable are explored. A context-specific approach of ethics is used to investigate ethical issues during the development and implementation of sensor and intervention technologies. It is a holistic approach toward the diverse field of participants and stakeholders, and the diversity in perceptions of relevant values, depending on their respective professional languages. Discussion: The results show how protecting the privacy and autonomy of workers cannot be seen as stand-alone issues, but, rather, there is interplay between these values, the work context, and the responsibilities of workers and employers. Consequently, technologies in this research project are designed to improve worker conscientious autonomy, while concurrently creating balance between privacy and health, and assigning responsibilities to appropriate stakeholders. Conclusion: Focusing on a contextual conceptualisation of the ethical principles in the design and implementation of digital health technologies helps to avoid compartmentalization, out-of-context generalisation, and neglect of identifying responsibilities. Although it is a long reiterative process in which all stakeholders need to be included in order to assess all ethical issues sufficiently, this process is crucial to achieving the intended goal of a technology. Having laid out the landscape and problems of ethics around technologies for workplace health promotion, we believe policies and standards, and a very overdue discussion about these, are needed. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Roossien, de Jong, Bonvanie and Maeckelberghe.)
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