 The Universal Right to Health in Brazil: From Restricted Expansion to DismantlingLenaura Vasconcelos Costa Lobato ()
Chapter Chapter 6 in Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil, 2023, pp 135-157 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Brazilian contemporary democracy has been umbilically related to social policies, and dismantling them both reduces the State favoring austerity policies as restrain democracy. The chapter analyzes the dismantling process of the Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) and the repercussions of the fragile process of guaranteeing the universal right to health. We analyze the implemented and proposed changes to health policies, relating them to the broader impeding/retracting process of the universal right to health, which is the most comprehensive social policy in Brazil. The central hypothesis is that, in the Brazilian case, the expanding of social rights was concomitant to the process of retrenchment of social policies, resulting in an expansive, albeit weak, guarantee of universal right to health. The scenario changed after 2016, with policies and proposals that can indeed be characterized as cuts, reductions, alterations, or even withdrawals of existing policies, constituting a straightforward process of dismantling. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-031-35110-5_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5_6 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Societies and Political Orders in Transition from Springer |
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