The Right to the Health Like Dimension of the Social Citizenship in Latin America and Venezuela

Abstract

This article is a part of a more rigorous research realized by the authoress to obtain the Doctor's degree in Studies of the Development. His purpose  is to examine the degree of effective realisation of the right to the health as basic dimension of the social citizenship, both in Latin America and in Venezuela. In order to achieve that objective the discussion has been structured in three parts: Firstly, Review of the process of construction of the social citizenship in the region, then in Venezuela and finally, the condition in which one finds the guarantee and effective enjoyment of this right in the latter country. The documentary review suggests that the historical development of the social citizenship in this part of the world demonstrates cycles of incorporation – exclusion in that it is, on the one hand, an expansion of rights and improvement of the quality of life of the persons, in global terms and, for other one, a social inequality that limits their own abilities to develop, with few possibilities of that the competencies  and intersubjective powers of the rights translate the normative equality in a fuller realization of the right. This way, the right to the health though it has a conception of universality it does not materialize.