Application of Bioethics in public health

Abstract

Bioethics is called to carry out a comprehensive exercise, which allows it to identify elements of health around the dynamics of medical practice and public health. It is also important that it be positioned from the theoretical, conceptual and empirical understanding of the human right to health, without losing sight of the fact that its starting point is social realities, and it must take into account that in the meantime the field of health policy, within the framework of the individual (clinical-medical) or collective (community public health) sphere. This research has a documentary study design with a descriptive, bibliographical nature, by collecting information in original scientific articles, published in relation to the study variables. The primary objective of this study was to determine the application of bioethics in public health within the last five years, respectively. Concluding that, it is evident that there are gaps in the disciplines, but it is also important to recognize that starting from the existing power relations and the management of democracy it is possible to find a convergent path.