Book contents
- Health As a Human Right
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Health As a Human Right
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Politics of the Right to Health
- 2 Health Becomes a Right in Brazil
- 3 The Constitution Works
- 4 Two Brazils
- Part II The Judicialisation of the Right to Health
- Part III What Role for Courts?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
4 - Two Brazils
How Inequality Limits the Right to Health
from Part I - The Politics of the Right to Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
Book contents
- Health As a Human Right
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Health As a Human Right
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Politics of the Right to Health
- 2 Health Becomes a Right in Brazil
- 3 The Constitution Works
- 4 Two Brazils
- Part II The Judicialisation of the Right to Health
- Part III What Role for Courts?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
When the Brazilian Commission on the Social Determinants of Health was launched in 2006,3 two of its leading commissioners, public health experts Paulo Buss and Alberto Pellegrini, wrote a short comment for the Brazilian public health journal Cadernos de Saúde Pública. Its stark title left no doubt about how they saw the situation then, almost twenty years after the constitutionalisation of the right to health: ‘Health Inequities in Brazil: our gravest disease’.4
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- Health as a Human RightThe Politics and Judicialisation of Health in Brazil, pp. 76 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020