Principles and Guidelines

SUS 20 Years: The Health of Brazil

SUS 20 Years: The Health of Brazil

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Principles and Guidelines

Act no. 8.080, dated September 19, 1990
CHAPTER II
Of Principles and Guidelines

Article 7 - The public health actions and the private contracted or health plan services that make up the Unified Health System (SUS) are developed according to the guidelines established in Article 198 of the Federal Constitution, also obeying the following principles:

I – universal access to health services at all health care levels;

II – integrality of health care, understood as an articulated and continuous set of preventive and curative actions and services, individual and collective, required for each case at all complex levels of the system;

III – preservation of the independence of people in the defense of their physical and moral integrity;

IV – health care equality, without bias or privileges of any kind;

V – right to information, to assisted persons about their health;

VI – disclosure of information regarding the potential of health services and their use by the user;

VII – use of epidemiology for the establishment of priorities, the allocation of resources and programmatic orientation;

VIII – participation of the community;

IX- political-administrative decentralization, with single management in each governmental area;

• a) emphasis on the decentralization of the services for the municipalities
• b) regionalization and hierarchization of the health service network
  

X – integration at executive level of the health actions, environment and basic sanitation;

XI – combination of financial, technological, material and human resources of the State, Federal District and Municipal Union in the rendering of health care services to the population;

XII – capacity of resolution of services at all levels of health care;

XIII – organization of public services in a way to avoid duplicity of means for identical purposes.

 

Aristóteles: – The participation and social control are guaranteed in national conferences and with the performance of the health councils. The responsibility for health management is agreed on in the federal,state and municipal government areas.

Suzy: – Oh, Aristotle, you are so intelligent! In addition to being handsome, of course! But this philosophy leaves me dizzy...

Davi: – Ah, Susy, then your problem is solved. Look how many professionals worked for the well-being of brazilians.