Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding
This paper has the aim to revisit the theme of the brazilian public health system from the perspective of its operation and funding of its actions and services, analyzing some of the main obstacles to its effectiveness. Endowed with its own logic of organization, planning and funding of its actions...
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Health Law Program
2016-09-01
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| author | Alethele de Oliveira Santos Sandra Mara Campos Alves |
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| description | This paper has the aim to revisit the theme of the brazilian public health system from the perspective of its operation and funding of its actions and services, analyzing some of the main obstacles to its effectiveness. Endowed with its own logic of organization, planning and funding of its actions and services, the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) finds barriers to its sustainability when it comes to funding and the judicialization of health. Historical under-funding worsened by the economic and political crisis the country currently faces plus the increase in casuistic judicial decisions that prioritize the individual logic over the collective right have produced serious shocks in the system. These are just some of the challenges to an effective public health system. This is why the work of public bodies must be responsible and always take into consideration the collective dimension of the right to health under penalty of causing the collapse of the public health system altogether |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be6f5df6d65b4c14b2300447ffdaa21e2023-05-16T18:01:43ZengOswaldo Cruz Foundation, Health Law ProgramCadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário2317-83962358-18242016-09-015310.17566/ciads.v5i3.326263Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and fundingAlethele de Oliveira Santos0Sandra Mara Campos AlvesConselho Nacional de Secretários de SaúdeThis paper has the aim to revisit the theme of the brazilian public health system from the perspective of its operation and funding of its actions and services, analyzing some of the main obstacles to its effectiveness. Endowed with its own logic of organization, planning and funding of its actions and services, the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) finds barriers to its sustainability when it comes to funding and the judicialization of health. Historical under-funding worsened by the economic and political crisis the country currently faces plus the increase in casuistic judicial decisions that prioritize the individual logic over the collective right have produced serious shocks in the system. These are just some of the challenges to an effective public health system. This is why the work of public bodies must be responsible and always take into consideration the collective dimension of the right to health under penalty of causing the collapse of the public health system altogetherhttps://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/326Right to health. Unified Health System. Healthcare funding. Judicial decisions. |
| spellingShingle | Alethele de Oliveira Santos Sandra Mara Campos Alves Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário Right to health. Unified Health System. Healthcare funding. Judicial decisions. |
| title | Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding |
| title_full | Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding |
| title_fullStr | Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding |
| title_short | Public Health System in Brazil nowadays: challenges for its operation and funding |
| title_sort | public health system in brazil nowadays challenges for its operation and funding |
| topic | Right to health. Unified Health System. Healthcare funding. Judicial decisions. |
| url | https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/326 |
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