Developing a national observatory on the judicialization of public health policy in Brazilian municipalities: study design

Abstract

Objective: This article describes the methodological course used in the construction of a data survey as exploratory research with systematic sampling to know the nature of the lawsuits against municipal governments that demand products and services for Health. Methodology: The project was planned to be developed in the scope of the Program of Support for the Institutional Development of the Unified Health System as a partnership between the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brasília, the Ministry of Health and the Heart Hospital in São Paulo and cover the entire Brazilian territory as an effort to dimension a national framework of Judicialization of the Public Health Policies in the municipalities and to subsidize the formation of a National Observatory of the Judicialization of Health. Results: Its results should contribute to a better control of the judicial demands both by the Ministry of Health and by the Courts of Justice through the knowledge of the demandsin itself and of the paths taken by the authors of the actions for the formation of the processes. Conclusion:  The project covers a gap of important knowledge about the nature of the lawsuits and public health policies, and proposes the exercise of continuity of monitoring of lawsuits, which grow day after day, and specialize in various aspects.