No Brasil, o direito à saúde tem previsão constitucional e universal. No entanto, a via
judicial tem sido muito utilizada para acesso a bens e serviços de saúde. Assim, o objetivo …

The impact of increasing numbers of lawsuits for access to medicines in Brazil is hotly
debated. Government officials and scholars assert that the “judicialization of health” is driven …

Following endorsement by WHO, 1, 2 the World Bank, 3 and the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals, 4 the drive towards universal health coverage (UHC) is now one of the …

Purpose–The paper summarizes data from 12 countries, chosen to exhibit wide variation, on
the role and place of public participation in the setting of priorities. The purpose of this paper …

The constitutional right to health in Brazil has entitled patients to litigate against the
government-funded national health system (SUS), claiming access to various health …

Colombia provides a unique setting to understand the complicated interaction between
health systems, health insurance, migrant populations, and COVID-19 due to its system of …

As more low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) commit to universal health coverage
(UHC), there is a growing need for rational priority setting using health technology …

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400
people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the …

Over the past two decades, debate over the whys, the hows, and the effects of the ever-
expanding phenomenon of right-to-health litigation ('judicialization') throughout Latin …

Situated at the meeting points of Law and Medicine, the" judicialization of the right to health"
is a contested and hotly debated phenomenon in Brazil. While government officials and …