Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
Health Care at population level is a complex problem. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the goods that are ethically relevant in the process of caring for health at this level. We briefly analyze some of the Chilean health statistics that, although they show important imp...
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oai:scielo:S0034-988720130006000132013-10-08Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de saludBurrows,JaimeEcheverría B,CarlosGoic G,AlejandroHerrera C,CarolinaQuintana V,CarlosRojas O,AlbertoSalinas R,RodrigoSerani M,AlejandroTaboada R,PaulinaVacarezza Y,Ricardo Ethics, Institutional Health Planning Health Care Quality Access, and Evaluation Health Care at population level is a complex problem. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the goods that are ethically relevant in the process of caring for health at this level. We briefly analyze some of the Chilean health statistics that, although they show important improvements along the years, demonstrate that certain conditions are to be deemed as inadequate by both healthcare providers and patients. Ethics is a central component to determine how to structure and organize health care systems and how they should operate. We emphasize Human Dignity as an ethical corner stone of the Health Care System, along with other important values such as Justice and Humanization, under the scope of the Ends of Medicine, and other components such as technical competence of providers and the financing of the whole process. We conclude that as far as a health care system is organized in a way that medical practice is well ordered, primarily and fundamentally according the Ends of Medicine and the good of persons, such a health care system is ethically adequate.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.141 n.6 20132013-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872013000600013es10.4067/S0034-98872013000600013 |
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Ethics, Institutional Health Planning Health Care Quality Access, and Evaluation Burrows,Jaime Echeverría B,Carlos Goic G,Alejandro Herrera C,Carolina Quintana V,Carlos Rojas O,Alberto Salinas R,Rodrigo Serani M,Alejandro Taboada R,Paulina Vacarezza Y,Ricardo Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Health Care at population level is a complex problem. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the goods that are ethically relevant in the process of caring for health at this level. We briefly analyze some of the Chilean health statistics that, although they show important improvements along the years, demonstrate that certain conditions are to be deemed as inadequate by both healthcare providers and patients. Ethics is a central component to determine how to structure and organize health care systems and how they should operate. We emphasize Human Dignity as an ethical corner stone of the Health Care System, along with other important values such as Justice and Humanization, under the scope of the Ends of Medicine, and other components such as technical competence of providers and the financing of the whole process. We conclude that as far as a health care system is organized in a way that medical practice is well ordered, primarily and fundamentally according the Ends of Medicine and the good of persons, such a health care system is ethically adequate. |
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Burrows,Jaime Echeverría B,Carlos Goic G,Alejandro Herrera C,Carolina Quintana V,Carlos Rojas O,Alberto Salinas R,Rodrigo Serani M,Alejandro Taboada R,Paulina Vacarezza Y,Ricardo |
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Burrows,Jaime Echeverría B,Carlos Goic G,Alejandro Herrera C,Carolina Quintana V,Carlos Rojas O,Alberto Salinas R,Rodrigo Serani M,Alejandro Taboada R,Paulina Vacarezza Y,Ricardo |
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Burrows,Jaime |
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Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud |
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Sociedad Médica de Santiago |
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2013 |
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