Keywords
Health Advocacy
Non-Governmental Organizations
Health Unify System
Non-Governmental Organizations
Health Unify System
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v6i3.378How to Cite
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The “right to health” claim from the Federal District Non-Governmental Organizations: enforcing social rights or paternalism?. Cad. Ibero Am. Direito Sanit. [Internet]. 2017 Sep. 29 [cited 2026 Mar. 13];6(3):30-47. Available from: https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/378
Abstract
Objective - This article analyzes the advocacy initiatives of NGOs in enforcing health rights in the Federal District (DF) based on questionnaires answered by NGO leaders in 2008 and 2009. Methods – Both the semi-structured interview technique and the Discourse of the Collective Subject (ADS) were used. Result: NGOs have been more involved with primary health care, mainly acting as providers of services to users of the healthcare system in the Federal District, and not as associations focused on advocating in favor of improved health policies in the Federal District and guaranteeing the social right to health. Conclusion: The work of NGOs in the Federal District has been insufficient to politically influence the enforcement of the right to health and, consequently, to act in a manner consistent with the exercise of citizenship in health.Authors retain the copyright to their works and grant the Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (CIADS) the right of first publication.
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