Efeitos das políticas públicas neoliberais no acesso ao direito à saúde no brasil entre 2016 e 2020

Abstract

The research focuses on the analysis of the right to health in the light of Brazilian neoliberal public policies, in the time frame of 2016 to 2020. This theme has high relevance in the country's conjuncture because the right to health is a fundamental right of the democratic order and must be preserved. The methodology applied for development includes bibliographic review and documentary analysis, mainly from the collection of data on the Unified Health System (SUS) made available by secondary sources. The general objective of this research was to discuss the extent to which neoliberal policies advanced on the SUS between 2016 and 2020. For this, the specific objectives sought to describe the legal protection to public health in Brazil from 1988, to identify the neoliberal public policies applied in the health context between 2016-2020 and to reflect on its effects for the strengthening or weakening of the public and private health sectors in Brazil in the period. The results showed that the effects of constitutional amendment 95 in the face of public investments in health corroborated the weakening of the public sector and the strengthening of the private sector, since there were significant reductions in investments applied between 2016 and 2020. Thus, the study concluded that these effects are in line with social setbacks, since the 1988 Constitution states that public policies are necessary mechanisms for the achievement of social justice, through the materialization of access to fundamental rights and guarantees, such as the right to public health.