Health Care in Developing Countries. Breaking the Inequities

• Main Author: Ma. Pilar Núñez Cubero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2018-10-01
• Series: Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética
• Subjects: igualdad; desigualdad; desarrollo; interpretaciones de la salud; medicina tradicional; aculturación; inculturación
• Online Access: https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/bioetica-revista-iberoamericana/article/view/8480

The access to health care in developing countries cannot be compared with that existing in developed countries. It is evident that inequality is strongly installed in our world. The are several reasons: lack of progress, access difficulties due to geography, lack of health institutions, scarce human, material and economic resources, and absence of medical insurance. But the fact that there is an essential human factor related to traditional communities, with a particular philosophy on the concept of man and about health has been neglected. Their ideologies had not been taken to consideration by other cultures. These cultures have imposed an acculturation process, without practicing their own inculturation to understand the deep local concept of man and health. International institutions have made several proposals and written documents that have not proven to be very efficient, and when examining and verifying the United Nations annual statistics, no improvements can be observed.