Healthcare as a Universal Human Right

This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens' fundamental right to basic healthcare.

Rui Nunes is a full professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. He is the president and founder of the Portuguese Association of Bioethics and is a member of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. He has published nearly 30 books in different areas. He got international recognition due to the proposal in Brasil and Portugal of the legalization of the living will and due to the proposal to UNESCO of the Universal Declaration on Gender Equality. Between 2016 and 2021 he was the Head of the Research Department of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. He is the Secretary-General of the International Chair in Bioethics.

1.Fair Equality of Opportunity. 2.Welfare State as a Global Ideal. 3.A Universal Right to Healthcare of Variable Geometry. 4.Priorities in Healthcare. 5.Evidence Based Medicine and Resource Allocation. 6.Global Health in a Digital World. 7.Covid-19 and Global Public Goods. 8.Public Health as a Social Choice. 9.New Public Management in Healthcare. 10.Regulation and Performance Improvement. 11.Universal Access to Palliative Care. 12- Patient's Rights in Modern Societies.