Health policies and democracy: strategies, impasses and contradictions of the brazilian sanitary movement

Authors

  • Julian Borba

Abstract

This article has the aim of contextualizing the health policy in Brazil, emphasizing the role that had an collective actor, the Brazilian Sanitary Movement, on the construction of a health system permeated by the principles of Universality, Integrality and Equity. The article also has the intention of making an analysis of SUS, implementation process, emphasizing the Brazilian Sanitary Movement's theoretic and political limits.

Author Biography

Julian Borba

Mestre em Sociologia Política pela UFSC e Professor da UNIVALI.

Published

1998-01-01