Abstract

PEREZ AYALA, Manuel. WHY TALK ABOUT BIOETHICS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE?. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp.102-117. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.1484.

This work aims to propose a reflection on the need to include bioethical approaches effectively in Primary Health Care (PHC) in the Latin American context, describing and proposing relevant aspects in the particular discipline can contribute. Characterized PHC services deployed with both individual and community level, described its future challenges and the same horizon that bioethics has in it, help optimize the health care professional providing excellent acting and its procedures, humanizing the act of public health care itself. It is concluded that the criteria advocated quantity at this level of health adversely affected the expression of total quality to beneficiaries, the same that has reduced the impact of bioethics assimilated on public health. Once this transition, bioethics is called to integrate health quality, which in turn significantly shortens the gap towards equity.

Keywords : Bioethics; primary health care; public health; quality; equity.

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