O acesso à medicamentos: aspectos da judicialização da saúde

Abstract

Introduction: The judicialization of health is a rising social, ethical and philophical worldwide phenomenon that has a negative impact on public budgets and shows the dysfunction of the health system. Objective: Accomplish a literature review about the judicialization of health, which the required elements are drugs. Literature review: A review of the literature was performed using 3 databases: Pubmed, Medline and Lilacs, approaching papers published in the last 10 years that are related to the judicialization of health on access to medicines. The search found 354 articles e after the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 27 papers were analyzed. Discussion: Considering the use of the judicial pathway on access to medicines, the results point out to many topics such as the financial impact, social and ethical aspects, application of public and private services, availability of essential medicines in pharmaceutical assistance programme, and the explosive rise of cases in the last years. Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that such phenomenon presents paradoxical discussions about its negative financial impacts and the need for pharmaceutical assistance program update.