HEALTH PROMOTION

Health Promotion

Health Promotion

Effects of Socio-Economic Influence on Health

The tremendous changes in science and health in recent decades has led to a reformulation of medical ethics. Currently about 200 million people of the region live in poverty, which determines who are exposed to a large number of risk factors, so that the neediest social groups have no choice but to live in marginal belts that promote the isolation and lack of social support and low self-esteem. Also forced to accept jobs with greater risk of illness or become disabled, all of which contribute to increasing unemployment; antisocial behaviors are promoted generating all kinds of violence. Therefore, it falls into the vicious circle of poverty. In practice the ethical principles (beneficence, non-malfeasance, autonomy, truth telling and justice to the patient) can be summarized into three: beneficence, autonomy and justice. According to the charity, including the first two, the benefits of applying a technique or procedure must outweigh its risks, so there are no conflicts in ethical terms, i.e. is directed to the duty to contribute to the welfare of patient and is based on preventing or countering the evil or harm and doing or promoting good. (Caserta, 1995, pp. 283-92)

Government sources in reporting on inequalities in health

The Council of Ministers recently approved today a proposal from the Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality, Leire Pajin, the draft Public Health Act, which seeks to combat health inequalities and ensure the rights and duties of citizens. The bill, agreed with the Autonomous Communities, which wanted to serve to strengthen preventive measures and the promotion and protection of health in accordance with laid down in Article 43 of the Constitution and establish the basis for the actions of individual administrator public health. In this sense from Health recalls that "to date", the health structures are often focused more on health care and resolution of disease rather than prevention, "for this reason have been necessary to develop these new regulations. Public health is promoting health, preventing disease and prolonging life through organized efforts of society and even health services are essential to cope with the disease are not the main determinants of health. Thus, although the "ultimate goal" of this rule is to "achieve and maintain the highest level of health of the Spanish society" by establishing the general bases for the different states that should guarantee the rights and duties, "individual and collective respect to public health services, promotion and health prevention.

Also, among its objectives is to achieve Health for consideration as a result of other policies with appropriate coordination between the health sector and other sectors, reduce unjust inequalities in health, are territorial, social, cultural or gender "and finally" the tools needed "for the proper planning and coordination in various countries. For this reason due to health claim, "it is necessary to coordinate the regulation on the subject that have been developed by the state government. Moreover, the standard includes for the first time in the world monitoring the social ...