Bioethical Reflections on the UN 2030
Agenda and its Repercussions
for Teachers’ Health
Ivaní Nadir Carlotto and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Abstract The goal of this study was to identify connections between bioethical
principles, the goals set by the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and the foundations for health promotion (HP), particularly when
applied to university professors. In its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3—“to
ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”—the 2030 Agenda
allows for a reflection on the connections between bioethics and HP. Bioethics and HP
both value the interactions between and focus on individuals and, in this approach,
the drawing of connections between these topics and the 2030 Agenda presents
itself represents a way to stimulate and develop useful measures involving health,
well-being, quality of life, and happiness. The results suggest that concepts such as
respect for personal dignity, care, protection, sustainable actions, prosperity, peace,
partnership, and solidarity were reported by professors surveyed on these topics, with
impact on seeking health-related measures able to promote individual and collective
well-being, quality of life, inclusion and social justice, principle which are related to
bioethics and HP, and the foundations of which are clearly correlated with the 2030
Agenda.
Keywords UN 2030 agenda · Bioethics · Health promotion · Higher education ·
Sustainable development
1 Background
In 2015, the United Nations (UN), in partnership with governments, civil society,
and other stakeholders, began the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) project
to achieve transformative Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of their
I. N. Carlotto (B) · M. A. P. Dinis
Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP),
Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 33163@ufp.edu.pt
M. A. P. Dinis
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_44
737
Agenda and its Repercussions
for Teachers’ Health
Ivaní Nadir Carlotto and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Abstract The goal of this study was to identify connections between bioethical
principles, the goals set by the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and the foundations for health promotion (HP), particularly when
applied to university professors. In its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3—“to
ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”—the 2030 Agenda
allows for a reflection on the connections between bioethics and HP. Bioethics and HP
both value the interactions between and focus on individuals and, in this approach,
the drawing of connections between these topics and the 2030 Agenda presents
itself represents a way to stimulate and develop useful measures involving health,
well-being, quality of life, and happiness. The results suggest that concepts such as
respect for personal dignity, care, protection, sustainable actions, prosperity, peace,
partnership, and solidarity were reported by professors surveyed on these topics, with
impact on seeking health-related measures able to promote individual and collective
well-being, quality of life, inclusion and social justice, principle which are related to
bioethics and HP, and the foundations of which are clearly correlated with the 2030
Agenda.
Keywords UN 2030 agenda · Bioethics · Health promotion · Higher education ·
Sustainable development
1 Background
In 2015, the United Nations (UN), in partnership with governments, civil society,
and other stakeholders, began the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) project
to achieve transformative Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of their
I. N. Carlotto (B) · M. A. P. Dinis
Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP),
Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 33163@ufp.edu.pt
M. A. P. Dinis
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_44
737