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The Universal Right to Health in Brazil: From Restricted Expansion to Dismantling

In: Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil

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  • Lenaura Vasconcelos Costa Lobato

    (Fluminense Federal University)

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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.

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  • Lenaura Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, 2023. "The Universal Right to Health in Brazil: From Restricted Expansion to Dismantling," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Sonia Fleury (ed.), Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil, chapter 0, pages 135-157, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-031-35110-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5_6
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