The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case

AbstractThe increasing number of individual cases reaching courts with the view of ensuring the implementation of social rights through judicial mechanisms gave rise to highly polemic debates in different countries, prominently in the last ten years. By way of a study of the Brazilian case, the pape...

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Autor principal: Brandão Timo, Pétalla
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/5295
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cr/cr-010&d=article5295oai
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topic social rights; right to health; justiciability; Brazil.
spellingShingle social rights; right to health; justiciability; Brazil.
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The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
topic_facet social rights; right to health; justiciability; Brazil.
description AbstractThe increasing number of individual cases reaching courts with the view of ensuring the implementation of social rights through judicial mechanisms gave rise to highly polemic debates in different countries, prominently in the last ten years. By way of a study of the Brazilian case, the paper presents a comprehensive overview on the justiciability of the right to health, asking how the judiciary is, or at least should be, best suited to realize this guaranteed right concretely.Keywords: social rights, right to health, justiciability, Brazil.ResumenEl creciente número de casos individuales que llegan a los tribunales buscando garantizar la implementación de derechos sociales por la vía judicial ha provocado debates polémicos en diferentes países, de manera destacada en los últimos diez años. Con base en un estudio del caso brasileño, el artículo presenta un panorama general sobre la justiciabilidad del derecho a la salud, cuestionando cómo el poder judicial puede garantizar más adecuadamente la realización efectiva de este derecho.Palabras clave: derechos sociales, derecho a la salud, justiciabilidad, Brasil.
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title The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
title_short The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
title_full The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
title_fullStr The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
title_full_unstemmed The Justiciability of the Right to Health: a look into the Brazilian case
title_sort justiciability of the right to health: a look into the brazilian case
publisher Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos
publishDate 2012
url http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/5295
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