Direito à saúde, racionalidade e judicialização: uma revisão integrativa da literatura de 1988 a 2020

Objective: describe the main causes and consequences of the exponential increase in the judicialization of the right to health in Brazil. Methodology: integrative literature review on the judicialization of the Unified Health System (SUS, in Portuguese). The search for the studies took place in the database of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and it was selected scientific articles published from 1988 to 2020 in Portuguese, which analyzed the Brazilian context and were available for free in the online format. Results: the main reason for health demands in the judiciary is the access to drugs, the impact of the Medical Judicialization in the budget and financing of SUS may compromise public health policies. Conclusion: there is a need for greater articulation of the various sectors, in the sense of balance as a need for SUS users and the availability of State resources, specifically the collective well-being.