COVID-19: a look from the perspective of bioethics
One of the main challenges the public health system is facing nowadays is coping with the threat posed to society by infectious/transmissible diseases1 , which may involve putting into practice measures that include restrictions on civil liberties to serve the common good such as isolation or quaran...
- Autores:
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
- Repositorio:
- Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/13302
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.aprim.2020.06.001
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/13302
- Palabra clave:
- COVID-19
Perspective of bioethics
Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Coronavirus
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- Abierto (Texto Completo)
| Summary: | One of the main challenges the public health system is facing nowadays is coping with the threat posed to society by infectious/transmissible diseases1 , which may involve putting into practice measures that include restrictions on civil liberties to serve the common good such as isolation or quarantine in the event of an epidemic/pandemic. The beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19, both globally2 and domestically, and the subsequent declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern3 , has meant a paradigm shift in the way we conceive of medicine and the current public health system, which has faced a process of decision-making and a course of action inconceivable just a few months ago. |
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