Universal Health Coverage: an overview and its challenges regarding cancer. The Brazilian experience

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Eduardo Blanco
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Villa, Fernando Gil
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/cadernosdesaude.2021.9796

Introduction: Universal Health Coverage (UHC), despite ambiguities that can be attributed to the term, leading to different interpretations and approaches by the health and governmental authorities around the world, continues to be currently the center of the discussions on the provision of affordable and quality health services. Particularly at a historical moment characterized by the economic recession, unemployment, the unhealthy lifestyle, the appearance of health calamities and the management of chronic noncommunicable diseases associated with the aging of the population, among other factors. Objectives: To investigate, through critical analysis, assumptions and scope related to the UHC proposal based on its concretion and contemporary context. In addition, exposing the implications of this conception in the right to health, to establish parallel and identify obstacles in the performance of the Single Brazilian Health System (SUS), with special attention to cancer. Materials and methods: The systematic bibliographic review was carried out in the search for scientific articles, in the Databases of Medline, Lilacs and Scielo, as well as official documents of international organizations, not published in journals. Results: They cannot be presented in numerical data, since it is a conjunctive analysis, in relation to health needs and determinants, where specific care models, service management, with limited cancer assistance participate. Conclusions: This is a multifactor problem that puts in perspective the need to deepen the discussion to guarantee the access and protection of populations in low-income countries, against catastrophic health spending. There is urgency to find solutions that can minimize or reverse the current scenario, investing in robust, inclusive and equitable public health systems.