Abstract

DELGADO BLANCO, Andy. Organized Citizens and the Right to Health. Meanings in the Venezuela of the Twenty-first Century. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.2, pp.149-177.  Epub Aug 14, 2021. ISSN 0124-0579.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.8235.

This article presents the results of a research done in Venezuela between 2012 and 2013, under the qualitative paradigm, with the case of study form and theoretically anchored in the Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach. From a series of interviews, the author sought to discover the senses and meanings that the organized citizens elaborate on the right to health. The results show information about their valuations, concerning this system of rights and of the mechanisms that endorse them. They seriously question the effectiveness of the guarantees established in the 1999 Constitution: the attention in health does not reach all the citizens, the provision of health-care goods and services is limited and of poor quality, and there are notable difficulties for the access to treatments and medical drugs. In Senian terms, this translates into restrictions on the real opportunities to live the life they want and value and, therefore, a decrease in their freedom.

Keywords : Right to the health; citizens organized; capabilities approach; Venezuela.

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