14 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas
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José Geraldo De Freitas Drumond
The medical profession has the ethical practice of the virtue of excellence. There have been since Hippocrates two ethics: the "philotechny" and the philanthropy. The first refers to the ethics of the technique and the latter, to the humanistic ethics. No... see more
Gabriel D'Empaire
Health care quality has become a fundamental requirement for any health care service. Despite the extraordinary scientific-technological development achieved in the last decades, the complexity of health care services provokes the increase of medical erro... see more
Stefano Semplici
There is an evident contradiction between what has been stated in Guidelines, Declarations and other international documents and actual facts. Already in WHO statutes, valid since 1948, "enjoying the maximum degree of health possible" is recognized as "on... see more
Víctor Manuel Rico Jaime, Octaviano Domínguez Márquez
An interdisciplinary study on bioethics is carried out, regarding health care field and its total quality attributes, with focus in decision making, integrating the main bioethical issues –dignity, autonomy and responsibility- as unavoidable components in... see more
Sergio Litewka
Argentina had been a fertile ground for reform attempts, focusing in the quality of its health services and subsequently, improving the accessibility and equity to the system. Even though bioethics, as a tool for interdisciplinary reflection, should had b... see more
Rogelio Altisent
Ethics has always being present in a more or less explicit way in health care quality; nevertheless, there has not been paid attention enough to the power of quality found in the ethical drive and attitudes of professionals who are leaders in improvement ... see more
Favio Rivas Muñoz
Pandemic recent threats have uncover that, even being more difficult and unknown, the problems that risk health at international level can be controlled quickly and effectively, that is, having little technical and scientific development, human resources ... see more
María Lucrecia Rovaletti
Online bursting obliges to rethink the right to privacy, given the organization of huge databases of personal character. Furthermore, it must be added that the possibility of intercrossing information content may facilitate the control and manipulation of... see more
Elaine Cristina Camillo da Silva, Dalton Luiz De Paula Ramos
Este estudo teve como proposições: compreender o processo da interação entre profissionais de saúde e usuários estrangeiros nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde (UBS) e Programa Saúde da Família (PSF); conhecer o significado da experiência dos profissionais de s... see more
Valentina Fajreldin
In Chile there are diverse governmental and social instances to work with the health of indigenous populations and there has been fruitful outcome; nevertheless, some health care access and coverage inequities persist in these populations. Biomedical rese... see more
Cecilia Orellana Peña, Mónica Rojas Urzúa, Marianela Silva Zepeda
This study has as aims to know the influence of physician model transmitted by those who teach and to identify student’s values when they initiate medical school, values transmitted before obtaining the degree and the importance of physician model in this... see more
Roba Izzeddin Abou, María Spina, Egilda Tosta
In the practice of dentistry, professionals face diverse ethical dilemmas permanently. Every dentist must make determinations whether he/she has competence for a particular diagnose or to carry out specific treatments in specific clinical circumstances. I... see more
Alvaro Quezada