Cobertura Universal de Saúde e o Brasil

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO), by issuing the Universal Health Coverage slogan in its 2010 1 report, stating that it was the "most powerful concept that public health could offer", caused great controversy. Firstly, because both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the WHO Statutes enshrined as powerful and essential the right of all to health. Secondly, because the 30th World Health Assembly of 1977 2 had renewed the commitment by launching the Health for All slogan in 2000, preceding the famous Alma-Ata Primary Health Care Conference held in 1978. Thirdly, because it produced a semiotic dystopia when resignifying the concept of 'coverage' of services traditionally employed in health, depriving it of the essential attributes of access and use 3 . Fourth, because it also dissociated from the concept of 'universality', relevant ancillary attributes of equity and justice. Fifth, because it posed as its starting point the issue of the mode of financing of benefits, in particular the issue (relevant but improperly appropriated) of catastrophic personal spending resulting from expenditure on health services. Sixth, because the WHO set aside the important report on the Social Determinants of Health 4 , finished two years earlier, limiting health to service provision

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• Cobertura universal de saúde

  Open Access•José Carvalho De Noronha•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2013

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