O serviço social e o Sistema Único de Saúde: história e lutas na perspectiva do direito à saúde

Abstract

The Unified Health System (SUS) is the result of many struggles for the universal right to health, which is regulated by Law 8.080/1990, as a universal and free system throughout the national territory, it is necessary to work with multiprofessional teams to serve the user population. Social Work, being a health professional, recognized through CFESS Resolution n° 338/1999, becomes part of this professional framework in the three levels of health complexity. However, health policy, over the years, has suffered attacks and scrapping in structure and financing, which has directly impacted the performance of Social Work in this socio-occupational space, it is necessary to draw new strategies of action on a daily basis. Social Work is a profession that has as its mark the social struggle, the defense of fundamental rights, the political positioning signed with the working class and acting with the social movements, tending to, even in the face of the dismantling of rights and privatizations, continue to build a path to enable access to quality public health with social participation. Through this study we sought to reflect on some flags of struggle that the professional category has defended in the SUS. It is concluded that the social worker is a professional of significant relevance in the health area, because its performance aims to promote access to social rights and social protection, and that, in the, through the broadest forms of professional intervention, it provokes in the population the critical awakening for the strengthening of the collective struggle for a strong and effectively public SUS.