2017-01-162017-01-162014-04-24https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/123456730/269This study aims to analyze the paradox since 1988 between the conquest of universal social rights, such as health and lack of mechanisms for their implementation in practice, analyzing access health policies for people living on the street, perceived the restriction found by these people in healthcare, process experienced in the direct work of the author, there are more than twelve years with this audience in these areas. The method used will be critical dialectic, where a theoretical study will be conducted through literature review in consultation with the authors argue that the social question, capitalism, labor, extreme poverty, social policy and the homeless and the last census conducted in Salvador and nationally on the situation of people in these conditions. We sought to analyze the social contradictions in the economic process, and denial of political rights that permeates this question. The Brazilian and more specifically Salvador context demonstrates the lack of access to these devices subject to fundamental policies such as health. Understand it means considering that the homeless need to be analyzed in the construction and reconstruction of social policy, which while formally respond to the demands presented by these subjects, paradoxically reinforce their status as dispossessed of rights, not operationalize in practice. In this study, it is considered important to briefly justify the situation of street tied to the creation, configuration and reconfiguration of historical extreme poverty as an expression of the social question in the capitalist system of production. We seek to understand the history and current Brazilian and Salvador, which has advanced in attaining social rights of these people, and what barriers hinder this progress.Acesso AbertoSituação de ruaHomelessPolíticas SociaisSocial PoliciesAcesso à saúdeAccess to health careQuestão socialSocial issueDissertaçãoSociais e Humanidades