Abstract

DELGADO BLANCO, Andy. Institutional conception of the right to the health in Venezuela. Rev. latinoam. derecho soc [online]. 2018, n.26, pp.89-115. ISSN 2448-7899.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24487899e.2018.26.11860.

The purpose of this article is to examine the conception of the right health expressed in the Constitution of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its further development through some structures and institutional mechanisms implemented from 1999 until 2013. In order to achieve that objective this work shall proceed along two tracks: the proposals and discussions provoked within of the National Constituent Assembly of 1999 that influenced the crystallization of the constitutional norms that ensuring the right to the health and the mechanisms and institutional structures across which one has come developing the right. The documentary review suggests that even if the constitutional rules postulate a right to the health with a pronounced universalist character; in the facts, on one hand, the structures and institutional mechanisms implemented are not transparent and repeat schemes of the past; and for other one, the increasing deterioration of the conditions of access to services, treatments and medicines illustrate the lack of royal guarantees to make the right effective.

Keywords : right to the health; Constitution; Venezuela.

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