The Triad of Health Rights: Autonomy, Participation and Integrality

Health is a fundamental right of every human, without distinction of race, religion, political ideology and socioeconomic status, which must be guaranteed by governments in cooperation with the citizens for sanitary, economic and social well characterized as a fundamental condition for achieving peace and security. The political-economic world and the retreat of the Welfare State deliver the provision of human rights to the "invisible hand of market" conditioning the mere enjoyment of rights as a consumer and increasing the exclusion of the most vulnerable segments: indians, blacks,  women, prisoners, children, elderly. In this context, it becomes imperative to discuss the social construction of the right to health from three conceptual categories indivisible and interdependent:  autonomy that states in meeting the individual and the collective, building social reciprocity and raising the consciousness, allowing him, in relation to the other, to define the best conditions for production and reproduction of life; participation in areas of disagreement among the hegemonic ideas - such as health advice, management of health services, the means of mass communication - enabling the resolution for health policies that focus on the health needs of people and their communities, preserving the universal character and the supremacy of public interest; and, finally, integrality of access to health services and actions that do not fragment the individual / community, serving the completeness of their needs, understanding that these are not all equal, with policies and services organized and prioritized based on dialogue with the subjects placed in context. The right to health is exercised by subject who produces economic wealth, social, political and cultural circumstances and enjoy communion with their community.