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The ideal minister of health
  1. M L Barreto
  1. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Padre Feijó, 29, Salvador-Bahia, 40, 110-170 Brazil
  1. Correspondence to
 Dr M L Barreto;
 mauricio{at}ufba.br

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.56.12.890-a

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    Should mainstream public health

    After more than two decades of dictatorial government, Brazil began a new democratic era in 1985. The new constitution, elaborated and promulgated in 1988, stated that “health is an universal right and a State obligation guaranteed by social and economic policies aimed at reducing the risk of diseases and other ill-related events and by universal and egualitarian access to a health care system oriented towards health promotion, protection and recovery”, (Federal Constitution of Brazil, Article 196, 1988). Following this, Article 3 of Law 8080 enacted in 1990, stated that “ food, housing, sanitation, the environment, work, income, education, transportation, leisure and the access to …

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