Evelise Ribeiro Gonçalves
Federal University of Santa Catarina State, Brazil
Master Degree in Public Health
PhD Student at the Nursing Graduate Program of the Federal University of Santa Catarina State
Gelson Luiz de Albuquerque
PhD Degree in Nursing
Professor at the Nursing Graduate Program of the Federal University of Santa Catarina State
Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann
Flavia Souza Ramos
Felipa Rafaela Amadigi
Vale do Itajaí University - UNIVALI
Professor at the Vale do Itajaí University - UNIVALI
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Reflections on equality, justice and allocation of resources in health: The bioethical point of view to the inequitable society's dilemmas
Evelise Ribeiro Gonçalves, Gelson Luiz de Albuquerque, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann, Flavia Souza Ramos, Felipa Rafaela Amadigi
Abstract: This article brings a reflection about the dilemma of the allocation of resources to health in a society, as the Brazilian one, marked by severe social inequalities among its citizens. For that, the concepts of equality and justice proposed by Amartya Sen (2001) are discussed and the bioethical point of view is proposed for the searching of an equitable sanitary justice. The conclusion is that this search demands a hard fight which must embrace a thoughtful process towards the construction of public health policies compromised with the interests of the social excluded and seeking for national policies which guarantee the efficacy of the health systems.
Public Health; Bioethics; Equity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5935/1676-4285.2007490