Universalidade, equidade e integralidade de direitos: políticas públicas de saúde no Brasil do século XXI

Abstract

This dissertation intends to study the search for a "broad concept of health". It appears that the Legal Sanitary Doctrine doesn t concern about the actual content of health and leaves it for international laws and treaties, which don t reach the broad concept aimed. Thus, the debate focuses on the question of whether or not the requirement for health services by the state, basing himself to do so, the reality of what is judicialized. This way of looking at health restricts its content and is not consistent with the aforementioned "broad concept of health" constitutionally guaranteed. It is, therefore, an incongruity between the concept, which should be ample, and the treatment given by the Legal Sanitary Doctrine, which restricts them. Therefore, we resorted to the Doctrine of Social Medicine, in order to find the essence of which is health and, consequently, its broad concept. Health is understood, then, as a social right, fundamental and human, whose actual provision is essential for the well being of citizens. As theoretical background, it uses the linking of the state to its purpose, which can not be other than the genuine happiness of his people.