Políticas públicas em saúde mental no Brasil na perspectiva do biodireito: a experiência dos estados de Minas Gerais e São Paulo sob a égide da lei 10.216/2001 e suas implicações

Abstract

This research was conducted with the purpose of elucidating the public policies concerning mental health care in Brazil adopted since the promulgation of the law n. 10.216/2001 and which contemplate the mental disturbance carrier attendance and his rights. In order to analyze them, as well as its implications, Biolaw was adopted as reference, considered as a dogmatic theoretical construction, aiming the standard interpretation for juridical decision taking, in order to identify the rationality criterion that surrounds them if efficiency or public ethics. Considering that, since the 1988 Federal Constitution, the whole actions and services supply concerning mental health care are conducted by state, municipal or federal institutions or by the private initiative, with complementary character, the SUS , that is organized based on the regionalism, decentralization and hierarchy principles, the experience of two federal state members was elected, specifically the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, in order to illustrate the implementation process of strategies adopted by Brazilian public policies concerning mental health care, under the aegis of the law n. 10.216/2001. The data were collected through observation and with the application of questionnaires, answered by (mental) health professionals and by users (or their legal responsible) of hospital and health care services or by mental health care of the states of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo. Besides those two documentation techniques, this research is based on the historical method, together with the statistic and comparative methods which permits the conclusion that prevailing rationality among public policies concerning mental health care adopted by the Brazilian state is the ethics, that, meanwhile, to be effective, depends on the efficiency and creates implications for the user and mental disturbance carrier that extrapolates the standard limits of the law n. 10.216/2001 and trespasses others meanderings of its existence, especially its juridical and ethical autonomy which creates reflexes, in turn, in the fruition of its recently conquered citizenship