Valori comuni e politica sanitaria per un'Europa unita
Published: August 30, 2005
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Authors
Ordinario di Bioetica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Ricercatore, Istituto di Bioetica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia
"Agostino Gemelli", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
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The article deals with the issue of the values subtended to the health in the perspective of the European Union, after the elaboration of the Constitution. Particularly, the Authors set three questions: 1. which values are at stake in relationship to the health care field? 2. which congruence do these values have in comparison to the centrality of the human person, considered as the "end" of the new European Constitution? 3. which conditions should an health policy respect to reach to the value-person? Concerning the first question, it is shown the panorama of the different settings of health care: i.e., systems based on insurances, mutuality, and health care services. Regarding the second question, the different level of congruence is underlined between the different ways to structure health and the centrality of the human person. The article concludes enucleating the moral milestones on which a suitable health policy to the complex reality of the human should be built, values that are go pursued in health field, coherently to the cultural and historical patrimony of Europe over that to the constitutional treaty. The conditions are the following: 1. every technical choice can not put aside from a precise assumption of priority, therefore of values; 2. the choice in favour of a public health care service, according to the needs of health of the population; 3. the constant search for the common good at the macro-allocative level; 4. the golden criterion of clinical indication at the micro-allocative level; 5. avoiding every individualistic drift of the health care systems; 6. the ethical relevance of the organizational dynamics; 7. the trade-off between efficiency, effectiveness and equity should pursued "for" the man and not against him.
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