The role of justice and equality in society and their impact on medicine
Authors: Wiegel Narine L. , Mettini Emiliano 
Published: August 2024

BACKGROUND: Justice and equity play a key role in the development of a sustainable society. This article explores their role in health care and its impact on the accessibility and quality of health care for many social groups, which can serve as a vector for closer cooperation between health care institutions, health care agencies, and health care providers. This article explores their role in health care and their impact on access to and quality of care for many social groups, protection agencies and society. The authors analyze various aspects of justice in medicine, such as equal access to health care for all citizens, adequate allocation of health resources, and adequate distribution of health care resources, citizens, adequate allocation of health resources and reduction of inequalities in access to health care, which also depends on the effectiveness of the interaction between the patient and relevant officials of the patient with the relevant officials. The article emphasizes attention to the measures taken and policy strategies aimed at achieving a more just and equitable health care system, including the development of social protection programs, improving the accessibility and quality of health care for marginalized populations. The authors emphasize the need to create an equitable health care system in which every citizen has equal opportunities to receive necessary medical care regardless of their social status and circumstances.
AIM: The purpose of this article is to examine the social, political and economic barriers to fair and equal access to quality health care for all citizens. One of the areas of analysis was a discussion of such phenomena as health-related “social stigma” and insufficiently developed professional identity of the doctor, which often act as barriers that reduce access to appropriate medical care for certain segments of the population, due to their background, social, economic status, and inability to communicate fairly and openly with others.
METHODS: The corpus of domestic and foreign scientific publications, thematically relevant to the topic and discursive line of the article, was used.
RESULTS: The results of the study reflect that poorly delivered health care has negative consequences — first of all, a decrease in the number of able-bodied population, increased health inequality, increased costs and burden on the health care system, violation of social justice, economic inequality, reduced development potential of the state, which, in turn, creates even deeper social problems — such as unemployment among the most vulnerable segments of the population, increased crime and others.
CONCLUSION: The authors conclude that it is necessary to develop laws and legal acts in the field of health care, which, on the one hand, will contribute to increasing the availability of health care for the most vulnerable segments of the population. (in particular, expanding the practice of telemedicine services), and, on the other hand, it seems necessary to search for opportunities to reduce the cost of drugs and medicines for the patient, improve the quality of professional (re)training of medical personnel, provision of remote settlements with the necessary preventive means for monitoring the state of health of the population. In addition, the authors emphasize that international collaboration and sharing of experiences can serve as an effective way to overcome inequities and inequalities in access to quality health care.