Judicialization of Health: The Brazilian case and a bioethical review

Autores

  • Diego Hermínio Stefanutto Falavinha Program in Sociology of Federal University of São Carlos - (UFSCAR)
  • Patricia Borba Marchetto Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" - UNESP Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara
  • Helio Veiga Junior Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Mario Palmério Foundation.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2016.20085

Palavras-chave:

Judicialization of politics, Judicialization of Health

Resumo

Trabalho enviado em 14 de dezembro de 2015. Aceito em 05 de março de 2016.

DOI: 10.12957/rqi.2016.20085

Abstract

The Judiciary has been used by Brazilian society to seek for the concretion
of rights to health through bringing actions in order to force the State to
grant drugs, surgeries and other services, creating the concept of Health
judicialization, which is an expression derived from the concept of
judicialization of Politics, gaining significance in the Brazilian
territory. Unfortunately, as will be seen in the next sections, the
legalization of Health has taken negative proportions focusing critics on
the intervention of the Judiciary in Health and Politics. Nonetheless, the
excessive and disorderly legalization of Health do not have their reasons
only in poor performance of the Judiciary, but find their genesis in the
governmental inefficiency, corruption and market influences. Thereby, the
aim of this article is to instigate that the issue of legalization of
Health in the Brazilian case is complex, not being enough the occasional
interventions in the Judiciary, but a set/group of actions to measure the
real dilemmas/quandaries and argue/fight/work towards effective actions to
solve it through the balanced performance of all actors, governmental and
social involved.

Keywords: Judicialization of politics; Judicialization of health; constitutional law; bioethical

 

Biografia do Autor

Diego Hermínio Stefanutto Falavinha, Program in Sociology of Federal University of São Carlos - (UFSCAR)

Diego Hermínio Stefanutto Falavinha. Program in Sociology of Federal University of São Carlos - (UFSCAR). São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. Master of Law at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, State University Paulista (UNESP). Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. Member of the Group Observatory of Bioethics and Law at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP). E-mail: diego.falavinha@gmail.com

Patricia Borba Marchetto, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" - UNESP Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara

Patrícia Borba Marchetto. Professor of Law at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, State University Paulista (UNESP). Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. Professor of Law at Faculty of Science, Arts and Humanities, State University Paulista (UNESP). Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil. Doctor of Law at Barcelona University – Spain. E-mail: pmarchetto@fclar.unesp.br

Helio Veiga Junior, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Mario Palmério Foundation.

Helio Flanagan Veiga. Master of Law at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, State University Paulista (UNESP). Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. Family Law Legal Specialist at Federal University of Uberlândia. Uberlândia, Minas Gerais Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Institute of Family Law - IBDFAM. Member of the Group Observatory of Bioethics and Law at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP). Law Professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Mario Palmério Foundation. Attorney at Law e-mail: helioveiga.law@gmail.com

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Publicado

2016-05-25

Como Citar

Falavinha, D. H. S., Marchetto, P. B., & Veiga Junior, H. (2016). Judicialization of Health: The Brazilian case and a bioethical review. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 9(2), 942–958. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2016.20085