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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Autores principales: 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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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2013
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spelling 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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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Ethics, Institutional
Health Planning
Health Care Quality
Access, and Evaluation
spellingShingle 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
description 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.
author 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
author_facet 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
author_sort Burrows,Jaime
title Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
title_short Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
title_full Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
title_fullStr Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
title_full_unstemmed Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
title_sort dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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