Rui Nunes
Health ethics (the right to health)
- Medical Doctor and Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
- Director of the Master and PhD Course on Bioethics and Director of the Master and PhD Course on Pall
- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- Member of the Medical-Legal Council (Ministry of Justice)
- President of the Ethics Committee (FMUP)
- Member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences
- Head of the International Chair in Bioethics
- First President of the Regulatory Authority of Health
Nationality: Portugal
Scientific areas: On Our Agenda (ethics and health)
11 of november, from 14h30 until 19h00
Room 2
Conference summary
The right to access healthcare is considered a positive welfare right and it may very well be one of the most important achievements of modern democracies; that is, it is a right drawn from civilization itself and an expression of the dignity of a human being.
Then, one may deduce that the right to access healthcare is decisive for exercising fair equality of opportunity in a free and inclusive society.
It is possible to implement the right to healthcare of appropriate quality on a global scale, regardless of the specific economic and social circumstances within each society.
For that purpose, a framework of new public management in healthcare will be presented as a tool to guarantee this right.