Expression of three perspectives of social justice in the organization of health systems
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Keywords

social justice
health systems
public health
right to health
universal access to health care services
public health policy

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Expression of three perspectives of social justice in the organization of health systems. (2015). Gerencia Y Políticas De Salud, 14(29). https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.rgyps14-29.etpj
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Abstract

This article approaches the issue of philosophical perspectives of social justice and its relationship with some of the implications for health systems in Latin America and the world. Three philosophical perspectives of social justice from the radical liberal approach, egalitarian and redistributive liberal, and Marxist egalitarianism or reviewed. Society, their conceptions of health and public health approach. From the theoretical support these approaches, the relationship State

are identified. Based on these concepts identify some implications for health systems in each of its representative aspects. The paper concludes with some reflections about the need to discuss the fundamental right to health as a fundamental element of universal health systems and assume a perspective as input for the design and analysis of health systems from the right to health.

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