title: Editorial for the thematic section "social responsibility and health".
abstract: The contributions collected in this section deal with some of the most crucial issues addressed in the Report on "Social Responsibility and Health" of the International Bioethics Committee: the importance of 'social responsibility' in the promotion of health, i.e. far beyond the context of the ethics of management and private companies where the term was introduced at first; the role of solidarity as a necessary presupposition for a genuinely universalistic morality of justice; the content of the right to health care, especially when we consider it as a 'legal' right; the quest for efficiency in health care policies, which is indispensable if we want to effectively extend the enjoyment of progressively higher standard of health; the sense of responsibility in the context of professional activities; the decision making procedures that are to be implemented in order to achieve a fair and just allocation of resources.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Semplici
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000941:ethics*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014480:United Nations