Bioethics and Global Health: Basic Health Care as Instrument for Social Justice

Abstract

This article provides reflection on health inequities in global scale. Therefore, it describes bioethics path from outbreak to become a field of knowledge, presenting the multiple challenges met, and it focus in health inequities as flagrant example of social injustice within global health realm. Utilitarianism model is
considered as reflection basis that aims highest wellbeing for the largest number (global population) as it is the closest to World Health Organization (WHO) objectives. Moreover, it discusses the Declaration of Alma-Ata strategy, under utilitarianism, to implement universal basic health care, which is considered as valid response that will contribute to minimize global social injustice. It concludes by considering as urgent the
bioethical reflection on this threat to human dignity and taking quick needed intervention in order to halt the growing gap between nations with different development levels.