Realizing the right to health in Brazil's Unified Health System through the lens of breast and cervical cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health is recognized as a fundamental right in Brazil's constitution. In the absence of a clearly defined benefit packages of healthcare services that are financed under the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS), courts have become important in adjudicating coverage decisions. Empirical assessments of equity and the right to health tend to focus on simple measures of access. However, these empirical perspectives belie the significant inequalities and rights violations that arise in the case of more complex health needs such as cancer. To shed light on these issues, this paper focuses on the care pathways for breast and cervical cancer and explores access and quality issues that arise at different points along the care pathway with implications for the reali

SUBMITTER: da Mota Almeida Peroni F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545675 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature