Universal coverage or universal public health systems?

• Autor(a) principal: Passos Cupertino de Barros, Fernando
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.25761/anaisihmt.176

The article discusses the controversies raised by the universal coverage proposal for health at the expense of the consolidated notion of universal public systems. To this end, the author uses a historical overview of the incorporation of health as a matter affection to the State, and recall the ways in which public health policies were designed, both universal and public, as in the fragmented sense. In addition, evokes health as a fundamental human right , so considered by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations in 2000 , which gave way to a proposed “ universal coverage “ , whose first mentions took place in 2005 but that was consolidated and was adopted the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. It presents, in the end, the criticism and the potential risks of abandoning the ideal of universal public systems to adopt the notion of universal coverage.