Judicialisation of the right to health in Brazil

Health and the Value of Inheritance: The meanings surrounding a rare genetic disease

“…One of them is the perceived limitations of the medical knowledge available concerning these diseases and the care provided in both the public and private health systems. This situation has led to a rise in healthcare-related lawsuits in Brazil and prompted discussions on the advances made in universalizing Brazil's public health system and its limitations (Biehl & Petryna 2011, Biehl et al 2009, Diniz 2009). …”

Political and Institutional Drivers of Social Security Universalization in Brazil

“…A non-anticipated outcome of the constitutional right of the right to health is that citizens increasingly have resorted to the judicial system to ensure costly treatment that is rationed because of the universal and free-of-charge nature of the system (Menicucci and Machado 2010 was spent by this state of 11 million people on court-attained drugs for about 19,000 patients". This represented 22 per cent of the total amount spent on pharmaceutical drugs that year and 4 per cent of the state's annual projected health budget-one-third of which is for high-cost drugs not provided through the public health-care system (Biehl et al 2009(Biehl et al :2183.…”

Resenha

“…Judiciais por Medicamentos no Sistema Único de Saú-de são destacados o papel da indústria farmacêutica na "indução ao consumo", do efeito do marketing e da má qualidade de algumas "evidências científicas" e consequente uso irracional de medicamentos na chamada "judicialização da saúde" 7,8 . Quanto mais alto o custo do produto maior é a força da propaganda 9 .…”