Justiça social no domínio da saúde

Abstract

In the European debate on equity in health and health care a crucial question has received scant consideration. It concerns the precise specification of a health system's objectives and the manner by which they can be suitably interpreted to permit monitoring of implemented policies. This article is an attempt to review actual and potential contributions to this area of study. It adopts the view that the meaning of equity in the health domain depends crucially on how social justice is defined and that this in turn depends on value judgements or the views of society held by individuals, groups or governments. Such an approach allows one to choose principles of distribution which are in agreement with a society's value set and subsequently to apply them as the correct yardstick for measuring the success of policy. Following an initial exposition of the approach, the main body of the article discusses the question of competing theories of society - Libertarian, Liberal and Democratic Socialist - and appraises the various distribution principles, to be found in the economic and philosophical literature, which they imply. The final section offers some brief conclusions and avenues for further research.

Que Som É Este? O Uso Da Música Por Analistas Do Comportamento

“…A equidade em saúde é compreendida como um conceito ético, com fundamentação em princípios de justiça social (BRAVEMAN; GRUSKIN, 2003. Desta forma, a definição da equidade em saúde depende do conceito de justiça presente em dada sociedade, e este, por sua vez, é oriundo da teoria social adotada (PEREIRA, 1990). Neste sentido, a equidade em saúde e a justiça social configuram-se em dois conceitos que variam conforme o contexto no qual são analisados (BRAVEMAN; GRUSKIN, 2003).…”