Health, news and ethical principles<p>Sağlık, haber ve etik ilkeler
Journal Title: Journal of Human Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
Health news has a special position due to both their corporate significance and being for the special/private areas of the readers. They also directly influence the health right, which is one of the fundamental, irreplaceable, nontransferable rights of the individual and based on the “value of being human”. The health news which is made inattentively or false can lead to ending an individual’s life or reducing the life quality of an individual.In this regard, in this study, which aims to reveal the ethical principles of health journalism in Turkey within the framework of social responsibility theory in relation to health journalism which requires a privileged responsibility and attention, a qualitative approach was adopted where the data was collected through document analysis and interviews.As a result, the health journalist needs to observe personal rights and act responsibly in order to avoid disrupting the body unity of a person, adversely affect the life quality of a person and avoid preventing the right to access to equal and quality health services in his professional journalist behaviors while producing news. Within this framework, the Ethical Principles of Health Journalism which should be taken into consideration by the journalist in the production process of the health news are as follows: Principle of not harming, principles of honesty and objectivity, principles of privacy and private life, principle of equity.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetSağlık haberleri hem taşıdıkları kamusal önem hem de okuyucuların özel/mahrem alanlarına yönelik olmaları nedeniyle özel bir konuma sahiptir. Aynı zamanda kaynağını insanın “insan olma değeri”nden alan ve bireyin temel, vazgeçilemez, devredilemez haklarından biri olan sağlık hakkını doğrudan etkilemektedir. Özensiz, eksik veya yanlış yapılan bir sağlık haberi, bireyin yaşamının sonlanmasına veya yaşam kalitesinin düşmesine neden olabilmektedir.Bu bağlamda ayrıcalıklı bir sorumluluk ve özen gerektiren sağlık haberciliği ile ilgili olarak, Türkiye’de sağlık haberciliği etik ilkelerinin ortaya konulması amaçlandığı çalışmada, verilerin doküman incelemesi ve görüşme yoluyla toplandığı nitel yaklaşım benimsenmiştir.Sonuç olarak sağlık habercisinin haber üretiminde profesyonel gazetecilik davranışlarının gereğiyle, kişinin vücut bütünlüğünü bozmamak, yaşam kalitesini olumsuz etkilememek, eşit ve kaliteli sağlık hizmetine ulaşma hakkını engellememek adına, kişilik haklarını da gözeterek, sorumlu davranmasının gerekliliği ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çerçevede gazetecinin sağlık haberi üretim sürecinde göz önünde bulundurması gereken Sağlık Haberciliği Etik İlkeleri; zarar vermeme ilkesi, doğruluk ve objektiflik ilkesi, mahremiyet ve özel hayat ilkesi, hakkaniyet ilkesi olarak belirlenmiştir.
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Asuman Kaya
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