Open AccessEthics in times of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Claudia Hazzel De la Fuente Piñeiro,
Arianna Omaña-Covarrubias,
Adrián Moya-Escalera,
Carlos Enrique CuevasSuárez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mexican bioethics review icsa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2683-2062
DOI - 10.29057/mbr.v2i4.6301
Subject(s) - distributive justice , covid-19 , abandonment (legal) , pandemic , economic justice , public health , health care , political science , distributive property , public relations , sociology , nursing , medicine , law , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , pure mathematics
The main ethical issues in the management and safety of public health care are: distributive justice and non-abandonment. The COVID-19 pandemic raises difficult ethical questions for our health care system. Perhaps the most difficult is how to equally distribute scarce resources, and determine who lives and who dies.