The Brazilian Association of Nursing in the uncompromising defense of the Brazilian Unified Health System - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 01-01-2015;68(2):185-186
The title of the 2015 Editor’s Comments could very well be from a journal published in decades past, a time when, in Brazil, all professional entities and civil society fought for the right to health, as was later established in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Twenty-five years later, despite its financial limitations and restricted operational capacity to solve the population’s health problems, the distribution and interconnectedness of the Unified Health System (SUS) throughout the country has broadened access to basic health services, significantly transforming people’s quality of life in most of the country. In contrast to such advances, we are appalled by attacks on the SUS advocating that it be dismantled!
The Brazilian Association of Nursing is a civil entity that gathers nurses from all over the country. Well before the 8th Brazilian National Health Conference, it was already fighting for the right to health for all. Since then, the association has contributed to the improvement of health care by promoting debates about the training of nursing and health professionals who are committed to the proposal of universal health care and who have the competence to share care with their peers, with equal participation of the population.
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The title of the 2015 Editor’s Comments could very well be from a journal published in decades past, a time when, in Brazil, all professional entities and civil society fought for the right to health, as was later established in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Twenty-five years later, despite its financial limitations and restricted operational capacity to solve the population’s health problems, the distribution and interconnectedness of the Unified Health System (SUS) throughout the country has broadened access to basic health services, significantly transforming people’s quality of life in most of the country. In contrast to such advances, we are appalled by attacks on the SUS advocating that it be dismantled!
The Brazilian Association of Nursing is a civil entity that gathers nurses from all over the country. Well before the 8th Brazilian National Health Conference, it was already fighting for the right to health for all. Since then, the association has contributed to the improvement of health care by promoting debates about the training of nursing and health professionals who are committed to the proposal of universal health care and who have the competence to share care with their peers, with equal participation of the population.
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