Background

Rising life expectancy, advancing digitalisation and an increasing diversity of lifestyles: Our society is currently undergoing a profound process of change that presents the healthcare system with new challenges in terms of content and structure.

The changed framework conditions resulting from ageing, mechanisation and diversity are also influencing fundamental normative concepts of health and illness, access and distributional justice as well as intercultural and intergenerational solidarity. This in turn has consequences for the prevailing normative ideas, regulations and expectations of care.

Objectives

In the NoWa project, the changing structure of values and the development of norms is analysed in inter- and transdisciplinary research. In a conceptual-normative research section, interdisciplinary knowledge is linked, taking into account different ethical discourse traditions and ideological justification patterns. A collaborative-empirical part focusses on transdisciplinary exchange in order to jointly develop sustainable recommendations for action and guidance.

Among other things, a model will be developed to define the concepts of health and illness, justice and solidarity, which takes into account different social contexts. The developed matrix will then be used to create a normative catalogue of criteria that health policy and healthcare professionals can use to analyse, evaluate and shape the framework conditions for healthcare in a demographically changing society.