La Red Iberófona para la Responsabilidad Social en Salud. Una estrategia vital para confrontar los retos de la salud en contextos de incertidumbre y cambios constantes

Abstract

The notion of social responsibility is becoming and will become more important as time goes by, because of the global awareness of the need to understand the human being and the effect of multiple interactions on the well-being of our societies, especially on health. Therefore, all institutions and all citizens will be called upon to assume some responsibility for maintaining and sustaining it.In September 2022, the Iberophone Network for Social Accountability in Health (RIRSS) was presented in Brussels, with the aim of responding effectively to the health demands of our populations, through close collaboration between all the Spanish Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe that make up what has been called the Iberophone countries. This geopolitical "territory" groups, together thirty countries and more than 800 million people, whose health is the responsibility of all those involved in the health systems and the professionals who work in them. In the current global context, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, perhaps the major uncertainty that current generations have ever experienced, with wars, pandemics, environmental and economic crises, technological developments such as artificial intelligence and much more, we urgently need to work together to respond effectively to the health demands of our populations, who are increasingly distrustful of the management of their governments, politicians and institutions to preserve and maintain their health. Promoting a network based on our common history and our way of seeing the world, surely different from the most widespread and sponsored Anglo-Saxon vision, is the challenge, we invite you to take part in. The purpose of this article is to present the vision and strategic lines of this project.