O assistente social frente ao acompanhamento e avaliação do cumprimento da lei de 60 dias para início de tratamento oncológico

Abstract

The increase in chronic diseases on the world health map reveals the challenges and confrontations faced by the state in dealing directly with the construction of health care measures and policies. Cancer, as the second biggest cause of death in the world, generates millions of expenses for the government and social and economic paradigms for society, which has lived with this disease foryears. TheStateis themain responsible for guaranteeing basic social rights to citizens, since the Brazilian constitution of 1988, it was judicially defined within the legislation that the right to Health would be part of the construction, of the only public policy of universal law, thus giving rise to the System Unified Health System SUS, within it diagnosis, treatment and monitoring must be handled with maximum agility and humanization, in order to protect the right to life and health. For SUS users diagnosed with neoplasia in 2012, the creation of Law No. 12,732, which will guarantee the start of oncological treatment within 60 days, is a milestone in the rights achieved for health users in the 21st century, highlighting the importance of Social Service as the main enabler of rights and in monitoring the creation of public policies that meet the real needs of SUS users within Brazilian health policy.