Demandas judiciais por fórmulas nutricionais na Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Natal: diagnóstico e perspectivas

Abstract

Introduction: Health and food are known as socials rights according with the 1988 federal constitution, and the solicitation of nourishment formulas by judicial actions against the three spheres of management has been a way to effect this rights. Objective: To analise the judicial demands for nutricional formulas of the county of Natal/RN assisted in the period of 2010 to 2020. Metods: It´s a documental study, witch has a descriptive exploratory with a quantitative approach, in witch the analyses unity were individual law suits for solicitation of nutricional formulas, having, as defendant Natal’s city. Results and discussions: Looking at the sociodemographic features concerning to the litigant, medic-sanitary and juridic autor of judicial demands nutricional formulas of Natal/RN between the years of 2010 and 2020. Could see that, the biggest percentual was front the masculine sex (52%) and younger than 18 years (64%). The larger seccionou the demands were provenients from the north 1 sanitary district (28%) and north 2 (22%). The biggest part of the trial refers only to one disease or condition witch demanded a necessity of 54% of nourish formulas. In the most number of the trials the nurture formula was provided by the public sector (60%). The nourish formula kind most requested was the modules and suplements for adults (32%). The majoritary part of the trials was by representation of the public defensory (80%) and judicial decison occurred by sentence (60%). The most common disease are neurologic diseases (50,0%), followed by stroke (8%). The mensal cost for the atendimento of judicial demands considering all the demands from the trials in a month was R$ 40.790,48. The necessary value for the Monthly cost of the prescribed formulas on the judicial demands was between R$ 123,36 and R$ 3366,00, being the average R$ 815,00. When evaluating the Search for health care before the judicialization, is noticible that 86% searched for a servisse, although 51,2 went to health unit which do not distribute norishment formulas for free. Final considerations: The city of Natal have conditions to through your existents health care programs to improve de management by fortification with a proper financing to receive the demands withou the need of trials and with that decrase considerably the judicialization of nourishment formulas.