Globalization, health and equity: contradictions and uncertainties

Authors

  • Miguel Márquez

Abstract

On stating some ideas on the challenges faced by the public health professionals, the author declares his optimism about
their work and this optimism is supported on the following considerations: the public health professionals will continue
playing a growing role at govermental and non-governmental levels because they have answers for the crises, they have lived
their own epidemiological revolutions and because their contribution to the people´s health is significant. There have
been incorporated to the scientific work of the public health professionals, with interdisciplinary and trans-professional
character, the contributions made by economics, social sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cybernetics, ecology and demographics,
all of which allows extending working horizons. Public health professionals are not unaware of political reforms,
decentralization projects and above all, of the social justice, the equity guidelines and of the battle for the human development
as a basis for the economic development. Public health professionals are democratic since the very beginning
of public health, and thus, individual good is not isolated from their own support that is national and international social
good. Public health has developed in the course of time on the basis of search for quality on sound statistical grounds that
allow clearly reaching cybernetics to use it not as an objective but as a means. Internationalization of knowledge is a thesis
defined by public health professionals who have experience and means to face the new siren songs.

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Published

2025-09-30

How to Cite

1.
Márquez M. Globalization, health and equity: contradictions and uncertainties. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [Internet]. 2025 Sep. 30 [cited 2025 Oct. 6];51. Available from: https://revsaludpublica.sld.cu/index.php/spu/article/view/41017