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Ethics and health care quality: an inseparable pairing

Authors

  • Javier Luna Orosco E. Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

Abstract

By interpreting that beneficence principle is the ethical foundation and that its application is not possible without structural conditions and quality functions, this article establish the inseparable relation between ethics and quality in health care services functioning; furthermore, it develops quality determining factors for good benefits and instruments for verifying and measuring their practice and fulfillment.

Keywords:

ethics, quality, norms, quality indicators in health care services

Author Biography

Javier Luna Orosco E., Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

Área de Calidad y Auditoría en Salud, Ministerio de Salud y Deportes