Fundamental Constitutional Right and Duty to Health and Financial and Criminal Accountability for Public Funds

• Autor(a) principal: Bandeira, Gonçalo S. de Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/342
• topic: direitos constitucionais fundamentais sociais da protecção da saúde. Responsabilidade financeira. Responsabilidade criminal. Dinheiros públicos; Social fundamental constitutional rights of health protection. Financial responsibility. Criminal responsibility. Public funds; Derechos constitucionales fundamentales sociales de protección de la salud. Responsabilidad financiera. Responsabilidad penal. Los fondos públicos.

The implementation of Fundamental Constitutional Health and Social Rights is necessary, appropriate and proportionate, following the demands of the population. Accountability and self-responsibility play a very important role. This requires the development of constitutional principles that protect public funds against corruption and offer a constitutional right to health protection. Financial and criminal liability might provide an incentive to improve the management of public funds and reinforce fundamental constitutional principles, particularly regarding the right to health. Constitutional, administrative and criminal issues, as well as public management and administration and the science of good governance, should be articulated in a single strategy also in the health sector. In Portugal and Brazil also.