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Is Health for All Possible?
There are two ways to get health for all: combating structural poverty by social justice and combating circumstantial poverty by sanitary justice. The present work shows how we can do these two ways with examples that come from Latin American countries. Alma Ata enunciated the way, through primary health care, solving through it the essential problems of local health, which would be achieved through the strategy of healthy communities and those that seek universal coverage of health services. Healthy communities promote the satisfaction of basic needs for a dignified life, and therefore the inequalities in health determinants. Thus by improving family nutrition will disappear, and if the barriers to access to health services are reduced, universal access to them will be achieved, of equal quality in the face of equal need. Social justice interventions are potentially emancipatory. There are a lot of significant interventions as law 100 of Colombia to obtain universal access to has social justice, but very few of them break the barriers to access, meaning a lack of sanitary justice. Therefore, even after satisfying universal access to health services, differences in health equity persist.
Part of the book: Health Inequality - A Comprehensive Exploration [Working title]