O fornecimento de medicamentos de uso contínuo para a população de baixa renda: aspectos teóricos e práticos

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the health care right and the State’s obligation to provide long term medications to the low-income population, based on the dignity of the human person, the right to life and fundamental rights. For this, the concept of fundamental rights and their different classifications and characteristics is examined, especially the right health care. Furthermore, explores the role which the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS) has to the entire Brazilian population and in their access to health services, mostly medicines, to the to the low-income population and the importance of the Public Authorities to elaborate public policies. It also includes the growth of the demands sent to judiciary to consolidate the health care right, studies jurisprudence understandings of several courts in Brazil in relation to this subject and analyses the importance of health care associations