Importance of bioethics in the control of infectious diseases
Through time humanity has had to suffer an epidemics series, which have enhanced an accelerated improvement in health services. There is currently an area in which the world is not evolving properly and is the preparation for a pandemic. We cannot predict when, but given the continuous appearance of new pathogens, the growing risk of a bioterrorist attack, and the growing globalization of our world, there is a great probability that a great and lethal pandemic today will happen in our lives in our lives. For this and many reasons, this failure should concern us all, because history has taught us that there will be another global pandemic of mortal nature. In addition, it has been observed that the control of infectious diseases is not progressing as it should. An example of this is the inability to track their propagation and the development of new tools in public health emergency control.
On the other hand, it is of special interest to recognize the importance of bioethics in the control of infectious diseases, due to the consequences reported through history and the future situations themselves. Likewise, the issue of infectious diseases deserves more attention, since it raises its own difficult ethical issues, since the measures of containment in public health such as isolation and quarantine may require the violation of human rights and basic freedoms, which whichgenerates an unknown in how to achieve a balance between the utilitarian objective of promoting public health. Infectious diseases involve issues of justice, which should be the central concern of ethics, contrary to this, it has been seen that the load is heavier for developing countries. Therefore, the importance of the case should be taken according to bioethics in the control of infectious diseases.
Infectious diseases deserve greater attention from bioethics, since the level of severity is very high. On the other hand, it is believed that they propose difficult environments around ethics/philosophy and its interrelation with justice. According to how the problems posed. A sociological model of causality of diseases recognizes infectious diseases as a matter of justice and therefore, of bioethics and also allow formulating principles of bioethics appropriate to the contexts in which infectious diseases prosper.
Infectious diseases will continue to persist among us, therefore, it is time for bioethical issues to receive the importance they deserve, with the intention of solving and controlling infectious diseases. With the purpose of inquiring more on the subject, as in other aspects of health care;As are abortion, euthanasia, genetics, cloning and stem cell research.
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