Abstract

RUEDA MARTINEZ, Gabriela  and  ALBUQUERQUE, Aline. ORAL HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT AND ETHICAL GOOD. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp.36-59. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2299.

An examination of the World Oral Health Report, adopted by the Global Oral Health Program of the World Health Organization, was executed out to determine if this document constitutes a theoretical-political tool to achieve the realization of the right to Oral health. The applied methodology was the analysis of discursive practices as production of the sense. The analysis found that the World Oral Health Report does not constitute a political-theoretical instrument for the satisfaction of the right to oral health because it does not incorporate the human rights approach. Thereby, the perspective of this document is limited to oral health care and does not establish mechanisms for the effective confrontation of social determinants and the state's obligations to ensure the right to oral health are not emphasized. Also, moving away from the referential of human rights, it also distances itself from bioethics, because the patient is not considered in its multiple contexts, which permeate the health-disease process; thus, it is contrary to the promotion of conditions of just and equal lives for individuals.

Keywords : bioethics; human rights; right to health; dentistry.

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