Judicialização na saúde pública no Rio Grande do Norte: um estudo das ações judiciais na ortopédia do RN

Abstract

The existing failure in public health services, specifically in issues related to orthopedics, reflect the vacuum or abyss in the provision of public health services to the population of Norte Rio Grande. The citizen user of the SUS, not being assisted or attended to in their demand, seeks judicialization as a (only) means of having their demand for health met, thus ensuring, through the judicial system, access to health, provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988 Law 8.080/90 regulates health actions and services carried out separately or jointly, also states that health is a fundamental human right, and the State must provide the conditions that are essential for full exercise. The underfunding of the SUS, which was already precarious, became even worse, through EC95 - constitutional amendment to the public spending ceiling, will represent a deterioration of the population's health conditions, negatively impacting the financing of actions (orthopedics) developed by the networks of health, States, Federal District and Municipalities. The system by which the network of orthopedic services is organized, that is, through the contracting of orthopedic services, the qualification system of health units. It will be a qualitative research where the fieldwork was carried out at the Central Demands Court of SESAP, the SEI was used - a system where all cases in the state transit, where I had access to all court cases of the State's Orthopedics Center for the last two years years old. The intention is to analyze the age groups that most seek this service, the courts originating from these lawsuits, the various types of services sought within orthopedics (demand for the surgery procedure in its entirety or demand for surgical material only). The types of sponsors sought by the population, their distribution by municipalities or even their distribution, whether by the federal, state or Public Ministry.