"Public policies, indicators and law: a legal study of the program to combat arboviruses in the Federal District".
Public policy; Human Rights; Indicators; Legal Analysis of Economic Policy.
In recent years the Brazilian population has suffered from high levels of arboviral diseases known as Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya. The epidemic spread of such diseases through the Aedis aegypti mosquito has posed serious challenges to affected groups and health professionals, but also to legal professionals concerned with how to render effective the right to health of Brazilian citizens. The present dissertation offers a legal study that confronts such challenges by correlating policy analysis with concepts and analytical strategies of a legal perspective known as Legal Analysis of Economic Policy (LAEP). The dissertation focuses on the Federal District Program to Combat Arboviruses (PCA-DF) implemented in 2018 and 2019. By using empirical data available in the public health literature on the execution of PCA-DF, and by adopting the framework of Positional Analysis, a methodology that integrates the LAEP perspective, the study offers an assessment of the effectiveness of the right to health of social groups affected by arboviral diseases in the Federal District. Lastly, based on empirical findings, the dissertation proposes the adoption of a number of policy reforms designed to enhance the effectiveness of the right to health of Federal District citizens with regard to infections by the named arboviral diseases.