Políticas Públicas Sociais e Desenvolvimento Econômico: Um Estudo dos Determinantes Sociais de Saúde no Nordeste nos anos de 2003 a 2014

Abstract

The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the daily lives of a population in a given time and space. Social public policies are the means that the State and governments have for achieving economic development. This study was carried out with documentary and bibliographical research, through books, articles, annals and secondary numerical data and had as study area the region Northeastern of Brazil between the years 2003 to 2014. Analyzing the social indicators of health, it is observed that not every Northeastern population has guaranteed the basic social rights for the maintenance of the quality of life that are mentioned in the Constitution of 1988 and the law n ° 8080, although it has presented great advances in recent years. The result of the research showed that the Brazilian State is ineffective in offering several public services for the Northeast region demonstrated through social indicators of health and that it must realize and encourage, through public and private initiative, more investments in the region and guarantee the participation in decisions that interfere with their lives. It was also found that rural workers have less access to public services than workers living in urban areas.