The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: we urgently need to look beyond the virus
The conception of health as the provision of hospital services, medical treatment, prescription, and delivery of drugs to treat illness is a narrow and fragmented conception of the right to health. It is not the SARS-CoV-2 of just 20 nanometers that is hitting our fragile health systems; it is the b...
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2020
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| Online adgang: | https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CIENCIAS_MEDICAS/article/view/3547 |
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| Summary: | The conception of health as the provision of hospital services, medical treatment, prescription, and delivery of drugs to treat illness is a narrow and fragmented conception of the right to health. It is not the SARS-CoV-2 of just 20 nanometers that is hitting our fragile health systems; it is the breakdown of the social balance and the weak impact of the ecosystemic approach to social determinants of health in dealing with this pandemic. |
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