Legal nature of the right to health in Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.esde.10086Keywords:
constitution, health fundamental right, social state, jurisprudenceAbstract
The right to health was established in the articles 44 and 49 of our Politic Constitution how a inherent right to the person. According to a formalism view of the right, the right to health was consider how a right merely benefit, due to the ubication in the Constitution. However, the jurisprudence of Constitutional Court about the topic, has said that the right to health is a fundamental right per se. The right to health interpreted through Social State of Law, is a fundamental right, then, it should be protected with all constitutinals guarantee.
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