Social ethics of global health recruitment
A DFG-funded research project in Christian Social Ethics
(2025–2028)
The project elaborates an overall picture of the socio-ethical challenges of the international recruitment practice of health professionals by distinguishing between three levels of actors:
Subproject 1
(Head: Christof Mandry, Implementation: Moritz Broghammer, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main)
Subproject 1 examines the level of International Regulation . It deals with existing agreements such as the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and analyses the roles and positions of WHO, ILO and private international recruitment organisations.
Subproject 2
(Conductor: Bernhard Emunds, Conductor: Lisa Neubauer, Phil.-Theol. Sankt Georgen University of Applied Sciences)
Subproject 2 analyses the recruitment of skilled personnel by actors in the German health care system . It explores the ethical profile of recruitment and integration practices Ecclesiastical and others of non-state actors as well as their political regulation.
Subproject 3
(Head: Jonas Hagedorn, Implementation: Leonie Uliczka, Faculty of Theology Paderborn)
Subproject 3 controls the perspective of a Country of origin health professionals by exemplifying the interaction between public and private actors in the context of the Recruitment from Mexico and its effects on the Mexican health system, among other things.
All three sub-projects work closely together and are guided by a common methodological approach developed by Descriptive above evaluative finally to normative-prescriptive work steps and reflections. Thus, the descriptive clarification of the central framework conditions, an empirical inventory of the problems and the discussion situation. To this end, a discourse analysis will be carried out in subproject 1; in subprojects 2 & 3, the analysis is based on expert interviews.
In the subsequent ethical Evaluation these are evaluated in the context of social science discussions and systematized with recourse to socio-ethical theory. The final normative-prescriptive The work step includes the development of an integrating socio-ethical concept with a critical examination of the systematized results of the previous work steps. From this, criteria for an evaluation of political options for action at all three levels of actors are developed and recommendations for concrete political measures are derived.
Contact
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Faculty of Theology Paderborn
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