Acesso aos medicamentos: direito ou privilégio?

Abstract

The present work emphasizes the question of access to medicine as a social right assured by the constitution of Health Public System. For that, it has been approached the process of medicalization experienced by the Brazilian society nowadays, as well as, the national medicines politics and its obstacles. It is also aimed to search for the apprehension of the access category to medicines, from the access dimension to the health services. All these categories considered inseparable in the search for universal and equanimous access to medicines. In this perspective, from the qualitative research, it has been realized foccuss groups with the users of the health basic unities (HBU) from the Juiz de Fora – Minas Gerais, to look forward to comprehend the understanding of the problematic inherent to access to medicines as a social right, that is, if these users feel themselves as porters of rights or as priviledged ones to obtain this access. This study has indicated that the majority of the HBU users do not consider themselves as porters of the rights, showing that access to medicines as a social right assured constitutionally is far from being daily effected in the Brazilian public health service in the contemporaneity.