Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss one of the most common ethical predicaments faced by public health practitioners: the distribution of limited resources for health. The question we address is the following: If there are limited resources to provide necessary health care, how can we r...

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Autores principales:	Gómez-Dantés,Octavio, Frenk,Julio
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile 2020
Materias:	ethics definition of health priorities health reform Mexico
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spelling	oai:scielo:S1726-569X20200002001892020-12-07Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health ReformGómez-Dantés,OctavioFrenk,Julio ethics definition of health priorities health reform Mexico Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss one of the most common ethical predicaments faced by public health practitioners: the distribution of limited resources for health. The question we address is the following: If there are limited resources to provide necessary health care, how can we reasonably establish priorities? We discuss this question using as reference a real-life situation, which was the establishment of priorities in the design of a package of high-cost interventions for Seguro Popular in Mexico, a public insurance scheme that extended social protection in health to over 50 million people between 2003 and 2018. The main conclusion of this paper is that the use of explicit ethical assumptions in the design of public policies contribute to their acceptability and eventual success.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCentro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de ChileActa bioethica v.26 n.2 20202020-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-569X2020000200189en10.4067/S1726-569X2020000200189
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spellingShingle	ethics definition of health priorities health reform Mexico Gómez-Dantés,Octavio Frenk,Julio Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
description	Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss one of the most common ethical predicaments faced by public health practitioners: the distribution of limited resources for health. The question we address is the following: If there are limited resources to provide necessary health care, how can we reasonably establish priorities? We discuss this question using as reference a real-life situation, which was the establishment of priorities in the design of a package of high-cost interventions for Seguro Popular in Mexico, a public insurance scheme that extended social protection in health to over 50 million people between 2003 and 2018. The main conclusion of this paper is that the use of explicit ethical assumptions in the design of public policies contribute to their acceptability and eventual success.
author	Gómez-Dantés,Octavio Frenk,Julio
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title	Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
title_short	Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
title_full	Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
title_fullStr	Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
title_full_unstemmed	Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform
title_sort	ethics and public health: definition of priorities in the mexican health reform
publisher	Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile
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Ethics and Public Health: definition of priorities in the Mexican Health Reform

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