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Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced

Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced

Meryem Türkan Işık, Gülay Yıldırım
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781799841173|ISBN10: 1799841170|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799853350|EISBN13: 9781799841180
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch006
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Işık, Meryem Türkan, and Gülay Yıldırım. "Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced." Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era, edited by Meliha Nurdan Taskiran and Fatih Pinarbaşi, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 79-94. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch006

APA

Işık, M. T. & Yıldırım, G. (2021). Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced. In M. Taskiran & F. Pinarbaşi (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era (pp. 79-94). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch006

Chicago

Işık, Meryem Türkan, and Gülay Yıldırım. "Health Professionals' Attitudes to Obese Patients and Ethical Problems Experienced." In Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era, edited by Meliha Nurdan Taskiran and Fatih Pinarbaşi, 79-94. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch006

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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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