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PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN BRAZIL

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46906/caos.n27.60209.p67-88

Keywords:

health, albinism, person disabilities, public policies

Abstract

This is a study that aimed to carry out an evaluation on whether existing public health actions aimed at people with disabilities, with pathologies, and with rare diseases, also contemplate people with albinism. Therefore, based on constitutional principles, we sought to map the guidelines, laws and norms that regulate public health actions of a general and specific nature, raising the main public actions in progress, identifying the main difficulties faced in accessing the right to health.

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Author Biography

Joselito Perreira da Luz, Associação das Pessoas com Albinismo na Bahia (APALBA)

Bacharel em Direito pela UNIFTC – Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências (BA). Técnico aposentado do Centro de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento (CEPED)/Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB). Ativista do movimento sindical e social, destacando-se atualmente como um dos articuladores do Coletivo Nacional das Pessoas com Albinismo. Diretor executivo da Associação das Pessoas com Albinismo na Bahia (APALBA). Integrante do Conselho Estadual de Saúde da Bahia e do Comitê Estadual de Saúde da População Negra. 

Published

2021-12-18

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