The right to health in Chile. Preliminary notes from the public health perspective

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Abstract

This paper begins a new research about the right to health definition, which included different fields of studies, especially law, philosophy and public health. This paper reviews the right to health as a social right and the difficulties in determine his meaning for legal and public health sciences, and how these two fields develop the concept of right to health.

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Right to health, social rights, concepto of right to health, human right to health, access to health care services, public health.