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Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0120-386X
Abstract
OROZCO A, Steven. Justicia global: sus implicaciones para el manejo de las inequidades en saludGlobal justice: implications for managing health inequities. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [online]. 2013, vol.31, suppl.1, pp.65-72. ISSN 0120-386X.
The discussion on global justice, namely, on the transformation of economic and political relations among the richest societies and the poorest becomes vital for public health today due to two reasons. First, because its well documented an increase in health inequities as an effect of economic globalization process; and second, because to manage these health inequalities, have become visible especially two approaches that have full regard with the public health field of work: social determinants of health approach of the WHO, and Latin American Social Medicine approach. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to analyze the prospects for global justice that assumes each of these approaches, and proposals for management of health inequities that are generated in each case. We concluded, that texts of the Committee on Health Determinants of WHO don´t question nor demand a change in the global economic and political relationships, while in contrast, Latin American Social Medicine considers that to advance in global inequalities elimination involves ethical questions and to restructure power relationship globally.
Keywords : global justice; social determinants in health; inequities in health.