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Health Incentive Ethics

Meaning

Health Incentive Ethics is the critical evaluation of the moral principles and values underpinning the use of financial rewards, penalties, or other forms of inducement to encourage employees to participate in health-related activities, particularly those involving the disclosure of sensitive physiological or hormonal data. This ethical domain scrutinizes whether incentives genuinely promote health or merely coerce individuals into relinquishing medical privacy, potentially leading to unfair discrimination based on health status. The discussion centers on the moral tension between corporate health cost containment and individual physiological self-sovereignty.