Direito à saúde da população em situação de rua

Abstract

This research had as object of study research analyzing the realization of the right to health of the homeless in the city of Salvador. The work was started from the characterization of the population of Salvador Municipality of homelessness and its condition against the basic human right to health. Therefore, the presented concept, the profile, the characteristics of people in the streets, highlighting its heterogeneity, circumstances and the factors that lead to homelessness. The right to health of the homeless was identified as a human right provided for in rights declarations, treaties and international law protocols, and fundamental right. It was pointed out that homelessness violates the dignity of the human person and that because of the principle of equality, there is the necessity of affirmative action to ensure access of individuals on the streets to health services. It was found that a state that does not guarantee the social rights of its citizens does not constitute Democratic rights and that even in the streets, the individual has the fundamental right to enjoy the best possible state of health and the public authorities have the obligation to implement health and social measures to achieve that goal. There was a check, too, that the concept of health encompasses the social context in which the individual is inserted, and that therefore the homeless is crucial to identify the health status of a person in this condition, but also for the formulation of health policies affirmative actions. It was found that the government can only implement appropriate health actions and appropriate to people's peculiarities in the streets, on the grounds of administrative discretion, before the fundamentality of the right to health. Some health policy actions for the people on the streets were normalized through normative administrative acts, and are in sanitary law, subject to the principles and legal framework. As the World Health Organization conceptualized health as well-being, physical, mental and social, for the realization of the right to health of the homeless, one should also promote other social rights such as food, education, social welfare, labor and identification. It was identified health inequities as systematic, relevant, unfair, unnecessary and avoidable social inequalities that affect the exercise of the right to health and to confront them, should be effective health policy action that overcome the difficulties imposed by daily life of the streets. It has been shown that with the standardization of actions and strategies to promote equity in health of the homeless was a great advance for access to health services, but it still needs a lot to be done for the realization of the right to health this population group.