Sanidad pública, crisis y la importancia de lo político
Health is always in crisis, the responsibility to get sick cannot be attributed only to the person who is sick and to change health we have to change the whole society. These three statements can be used as a starting point to talk about why when the economy gets sick (declines) people less die. Or what does justice in health mean in times when every right won must be defended. Or how cultural injustices are represented in health policies. Or that if we want to emphasize care, perhaps health services have to start by not being places where they are highly undervalued. Or how we are going to manage so that the novel postgenomic medicine is something more than the technologized form of the most unequal of possible societies. This book raises what society can afford a public health system for the next decades, and what public health system can contribute something to a society that has t...read more
