Abstract

GIRALDO-PIEDRAHITA, Fernando. Expression of three perspectives of social justice in the organization of health systems. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.29, pp.26-40. ISSN 1657-7027.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.rgyps14-29.etpj.

This article approaches the issue of philosophical perspectives of social justice and its relationship with some of the implications for health systems in Latin America and the world. Three philosophical perspectives of social justice from the radical liberal approach, egalitarian and redistributive liberal, and Marxist egalitarianism or reviewed. Society, their conceptions of health and public health approach. From the theoretical support these approaches, the relationship State are identified. Based on these concepts identify some implications for health systems in each of its representative aspects. The paper concludes with some reflections about the need to discuss the fundamental right to health as a fundamental element of universal health systems and assume a perspective as input for the design and analysis of health systems from the right to health.

Keywords : social justice; health systems; public health; right to health; universal access to health care services; public health policy.

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