| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Fair Equity of Opportunity in Healthcare -- Welfare State as a Global Ideal -- A Universal Right to Healthcare f Variable Geometry -- Priorities in Healthcare -- Evidence-Based Medicine and Resource Allocation -- Global Health in a Digital World -- COVID-19 and Global Public Goods -- Public Health as a Social Choice -- New Public Management in Healthcare -- Regulation and Performance Improvement -- Universal Access to Palliative Care -- Patients'Rights in Modern Societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens' fundamental right to basic healthcare. Ground in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy makers a basis for health policies based on public accountability and social responsiveness. Also emphasizing the importance of global co-operation, particularly in the area of health promotion and communication, it addresses, too, the issue of financial sustainability, suggesting robust mechanisms of economic and social regulation. New opportunities created by e-health, evidence-based data and artificial intelligence are all highlighted and discussed, as is the issue of patient rights. Students and researchers across bioethics, public health and medical sociology will find this book fascinating reading, as will policy makers in the field"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Biography |
Rui Nunes is full professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. He is the president and founder of the Portuguese Association of Bioethics, and is a member of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. He has published nearly thirty books in different areas. He got international recognition due to the proposal in Brasil and Portugal of the legalization of the living will, and due to the proposal to UNESCO of the Universal Declaration on Gender Equality. Between 2016-2021 he was the Head of the Research Department of the International Network of theUNESCO Chair in Bioethics |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
World health.
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Medical care.
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Human rights.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery.
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MEDICAL / Ethics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nunes, Rui Healthcare as a universal human right Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9781032138800 (DLC) 2021047146 |
| ISBN |
9781003241065 (ebook) |
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9781000530346 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1000530345 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781000530353 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9781032138800 (hardback) |
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9781032193250 (paperback) |
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1000530353 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1003241069 |
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