The Reserve for contingencies

the states financial health as a justification to deny public health to citizens

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-v48n2a2020-47636

Keywords:

Right to Health, Reserve for contingencies, Financial Scarcity, State omission, Judicial Action

Abstract

The present research is about the reserve for contingencies and its implications for the realization of the right to health before the Brazilian Judiciary. This work aims to make a conceptual and historical analysis of this institute, as well as the jurisprudential positioning of the country about its invocation by state entities regarding the implementation of health. Thus, using the method of deductive approach, historical, interpretative and analytical procedures, the type of exploratory research and the bibliographic research technique, the work in question addresses the treatment of the right to health in previous Brazilian Constitutions and in the constitutional order in force as a fundamental social right. In addition, it deals with the initial meaning referring to the reserve for contingencies and the way in which this theory was incorporated into Brazil, addressing the financial insufficiency of the State in the face of unlimited public needs. Finally, we analyse the aspects of the Judiciary's performance in the realization of the right to health and how the Judiciary deals with reserve for contingencies by the State. Furthermore, it has been observed that the judiciary is usually positioned to distance the incidence of this theory in the field of health, thus concluding that the reserve of the possible does not deserve to thrive when it is used as a basis for state omission, on the contrary, it must refer us to the idea of reasonableness as to what the individual can demand of the State and the collectivety.

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Author Biographies

Izabela Taíse Ferreira de Sousa, UNIFIP Centro Universitário - PB

Especialista em Direito Administrativo e Gestão Pública pela UNIFIP/PB, e em Direito Penal e Processo Penal pela UNIFIP/PB. Bacharel em Direito pelas Faculdades Integradas de Patos - FIP/PB. Advogada.

Igor de Lucena Mascarenhas, Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA | Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR

Professor das Faculdades Integradas de Patos - FIP e do Centro Universitário Unifacisa. Doutorando em Direito pela Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA e pela Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR. Mestre pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Especialista em Direito Civil Constitucional pela mesma instituição. Especialista em Direito Tributário e Processo Tributário pela Faculdade Maurício de Nassau/ESA-PB. Especialista em Direito da Medicina pelo Centro de Direito Biomédico vinculado a Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra. Graduado em Direito pelo Centro Universitário de João Pessoa. 

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Published

2020-12-08

How to Cite

de Sousa, I. T. F., & Mascarenhas, I. de L. (2020). The Reserve for contingencies: the states financial health as a justification to deny public health to citizens. Journal of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Uberlândia, 48(2), 378–404. https://doi.org/10.14393/RFADIR-v48n2a2020-47636

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Vol. 48 No. 2 (2020): Journal of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Uberlândia

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