O sistema único de saúde e o princípio da sustentabilidade : interconexões e perspectivas acerca da proteção constitucional da saúde

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Ano de defesa: 2013
Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Mariana Filchtiner lattes
Orientador(a): Sarlet, Ingo Wolfgang lattes
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Tese
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito
Departamento: Faculdade de Direito
País: BR
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Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/4223
Resumo: This study aims to examine Brazilian healthcare system (so-called Sistema Único de Saúde, or simply SUS) regarding the efficacy of sustainability principle, focusing on interconnections and perspectives to health constitutional protection. In its first part, the text presents a study of SUS and the fundamental right to health, according to Brazilian constitutional and legal frame. Since review and criticism to previous models of healthcare, the text analyses the process of constitutionalization and implementation of SUS, particularly the efficacy and effectiveness of principles that structure SUS, as well as the efficacy and effectiveness of the fundamental right to health. Passing to its second part, the text is initially devoted to investigate sustainability principle, its historical context and most common theoretical definitions, in order to affirm its normative and legal nature, as well as its effectiveness as a constitutional-based principle under Brazilian law. This fact allows the recognition of an objective dimension for sustainability principle, from which different legal effects can be developed and affirmed. The text explores, then, sustainability principle s efficacy concerning the SUS, critically examining the current model of healthcare, in order to point out problems and possible alternatives towards the effectiveness of constitutional principles that structure SUS, as a way to increase the conditions for health protection and promotion, as premises to a life with dignity and quality