A saúde psíquica enquanto elemento do direito fundamental à saude: um estudo sob a ótica da dignidade

Abstract

This studyhas the scope to analyze the concept of mental health as an essential element of the fundamental right to health, taking as reference the principle of human dignity. The concept of dignity as a guiding principle of the whole legal system and places the individual at the center of the system concerns.The key right to health is provided in the Brazilian Constitution in Article 6 and 196 and following, and despite the dealings given to it in the fundamental dimension, there is no content specifications clarifying their essential conforming elements. However, by adopting the concept of health proposed by the World Health Organization, Brazilian lawmakers recognizes the health establishment the physical, mental and social elements.Thus, using the deductive approach, the monographic method procedure and technical research literature procedure, beyond the transdisciplinary approach and use of legal arguments in development principle logical, will be the first to analyze the evolution of interpretation of the person and of human dignity through of the times, emphasizing it\'s current use.Then will study the connection of this principle of fundamental rights, and their intrinsic relation with the formation of an existential minimum core rights necessary to the implementation of dignified life, where health is a part.Following are studied aspects pertaining to the fundamental right to health, delimiting it\'s forecast in the Brazilian planning and identifying characteristics to, immediately, address her mental health as her essential constituent element. Finally, will be held the related analysis all institutes developed in research in order to scale the scope of the psychic content of health from the perspective of human dignity.