Santiago de Cali, October 28, 2010,
Professor.
Peter Westerholm, PhD.
Chairman of the Working Group on ethics and transparency of the International Commission on Occupational Health ICOH.
OBSERVATIONS AND PROPOSALS FOR ETHICS AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE PROVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE RISK.
Occupational Health Services ethics does not depend only on the Ethics of Health Care Providers Occupational also depend, in many circumstances, relationships and situations that occur with other actors (of ethics) General System of Occupational Risks, and the actors of other social security systems as Social Security System Health, especially the actors who manage, direct and finance, the SGRP. In: ARP., DGRP. National Council for Occupational Hazards and employers, and the Social Security System in Health. EPS. and Compensation Funds. They also depend on the ethics of worker organizations and institutions have an obligation and responsibility to control and monitor the Comprehensive Social Security System: Supersalud and Superbancaria.
Clearly, research, practice and provision of occupational health services and ethics in them, in Colombia does not depend only on the Providers of Occupational Health Services, exclusively, depends also on policies, directives, decisions, actions, interests and ethics of the different actors of the SGRP. not always obey the goals and interests that should be common.
Codes of ethics should promote the professional activity of all actors of the Occupational Health and SGRP. in terms of professional ethics, transparency, fairness and ethics committees to ensure and monitor compliance.
need to control and monitor the performance and behavior of all actors System Professional Risks and even those of other systems of comprehensive social security system so that it complies fully with the mandatory public service, the management, coordination and control is by the State and is provided by Public and Private Entities latter also subject to surveillance and social control.
Codes of Ethics must clearly and openly consider the importance and acceptance of accountability and surveillance and social control (Veeduría Citizen) as part of ethical and transparent. Ethics Committees should be open with surveillance and social control and to accept and facilitate their performance.
A true guide for the ethical practice of occupational health in Colombia and other countries with a public service with the features of this should include codes of ethical conduct not only for Occupational Health Providers: technologists, technicians, professionals and specialists occupational health, but it should include codes of ethical conduct for each of the other actors of the system, especially those who run the System: General Risk Management Professionals, National Council of Professional Risk of System Administrators: Administrators Occupational Hazards, and employers, for there is an ethical practice of occupational health to inclusion, participation, equity and fairness in the system and Decent Work for all.
important ethical values \u200b\u200bmust be values \u200b\u200bshared by all players in the system and between them must be included that allow the relationships between the actors of respect, participation and equity.
Each Actor SGRP. must have a Code of Ethics and an Ethics Committee and must have a common code of ethics and common ethics committee for the SGRP.
ethics committee and code of ethics should be made based on the acceptance and recognition that professional risk insurance cover is a public service.
code of ethics should include the effective participation and consultation as key tools for achieving the goals and the recognition that you can not achieve these, ignoring or affecting the rights of each of the actors in the SGRP.
Code of Ethics and the Ethics Committee must ensure that occupational health services that are part of Social Security services are an integral and essential public services are provided subject to the principles of efficiency, universality, solidarity , integrity, unity and participation (community involvement through Social Security recipients in the organization, control, management and oversight of the institutions and the system as a whole)
It is essential, also, a Code of Ethics and an Ethics Committee for Workers and organizations that represent them as the Joint Committee on Occupational Health COPASO.
I hope these comments and proposals to serve the purposes for which they were requested, and help you visualize and understand the need for ethics and transparency in the system as a condition for ethics in the part (s).
I hope the response and comments of the seminar table discussion ethics and their important comments
Sincerely.
Carlos Arturo Rojas Grisales MD. MSO. Overseer
Delegate to the General System of Occupational Hazards Veeduría
Citizens for Comprehensive Social Security System Prosesa (pro-Social Security)
e-mail: proseguridadsocial@gmail.com
