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PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN BRAZIL

https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2015-2-1-51-55

Abstract

This text seeks to identify the objective and subjective aspects of rights to an existential minimum in health care, based on international parameters which, because they are restricted to the internal scope of a nation, depend on a constitutional basis and on comprehensible facts, the demonstration of which should be the responsibility of the national administrative authority. Regarding the judicial review of the minimum right to healthcare, this paper points out that it is a serious mistake to try to handle public health conflicts according to the typical judicial principles governing conflicts under private law, because that distorts the public health system, with judicial orders that depart from the universal access to health care and that are often impossible to comply with. The article concludes that the judicial review of administrative authorities in matters involving the right to health necessarily requires simultaneous judicial review of the corresponding administrative procedures.

About the Author

R. Perlingeiro
Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Ricardo Perlingeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – Full Professor at Law School, Fluminense Federal university, Federal Appellate Judge of the Regional Federal Court of the 2nd  Region (Rio de Janeiro) and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Justice for the Monitoring and Settlement of Health Care Assistance Claims in the State of Rio de Janeiro

(84 Rua Professor Hernani Melo, São Domingos, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, 24210-130, Brasil)



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Perlingeiro R. PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN BRAZIL. BRICS Law Journal. 2015;2(1):15-32. https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2015-2-1-51-55

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