Medicine, like the health professions, while based on scientific knowledge, is not
completely reduced to scientific knowledge: it requires training in Economic, Historical and
Ethics. In the coming years, medicine and the health professions will be called to new and
important challenges such as the realization of the international goals found in the 2030 Agenda for
sustainable development: 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs/SDGs
Goals) and the 169 subgoals, which present as a specific goal 3 the improvement of
health but aim to end poverty, fight inequality and social and economic development
economic, climate change and build peaceful societies by the year 2030. The physician therefore will not only be required to have deep scientific knowledge, but also a
broader knowledge of the constant links with Economics, Ethics. In fact, as well pointed out in
some recent publications from Stanford University: "...the core moral challenge of health as
balancing individual liberties with the advancement of good health outcomes. Consider, for
example, how liberties are treated in government policies that fluoridate municipal drinking water
or compel people with active, infectious tuberculosis to be treated...."