A judicialização do acesso a medicamentos e o trabalho do Assistente Social no NAJG/UFSM

Abstract

The phenomenon of health rights judicialization, especially as regards of grant of medicines, has shown a number of implications in the management of public health policies in Brazil. According to some critics, the guarantee of rights to privilege the judicial way reflects the disengagement of the state as well as entails the lack of assistance to another patient and the imbalance of public resources, among other negative implications. In contrast, other authors consider that judicial interference provides the expansion of the concept of citizenship, enabling through lawsuits major changes in the executive and legislative spheres. In this sense, stands out the relevance of the role of the social worker in the socio legal ambit, or in this particular case, the Legal Aid Centers of universities, for research and analysis of social factors, as well as for the granting of information about the users rights and how to access them. Thus, the present work has as object of study the judicialization of access to medicines and the role of the social worker in the Legal Aid Center of the Federal University of Santa Maria (NAJG / UFSM) and, more broadly, in the performance of this professional socio legal context. This work brings to discussion reflections of terms of the social question about the legalization and the contributions of social worker in the responses to these new demands.