THE DISMISSAL OF DRUG DEMANDS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT NUCLEUS - NAT AFTER ITS INSTALLATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF JOINVILLE

Abstract

The present study aims to evaluate if the Technical Support Center - NAT of the Municipality of Joinville is endowed with effectiveness, which, it is understood, is the capacity to produce a result to transform the existing situation, responding adequately to the needs of the community. To do so, a brief historical rescue of the judicialization of health in Brazil is made, analyzing the evolution of jurisprudence on the subject and the measures adopted by the Government to contain the exponential growth in the number of lawsuits and corresponding public expenditures. In the state of Santa Catarina, the trial of the Incident of Repetitive Claims Resolution (Theme 1), the installation of the State Committee for Monitoring and Resolution of Health Care Claims of Santa Catarina (COMESC) and the creation of the Technical Support Nucleus  - NAT, with the purpose of advising the Judiciary Power, with technical and enlightening information about the SUS care, as well as optimizing the user's care, indicating the treatment recommended in the SUS, when it exists, and, in its absence, of the existing therapeutic alternative. In closing, there is an analysis of the indicators presented in the Annual Monitoring Report of the Judicialization - 2017 of the Municipal Health Department of Joinville and the services rendered to the local population by the NAT installed in that city.