Democracy and Digital Transparency in the Right to the Health Protection in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

In the last statistics published by the World Health Organization, Brazil is ranked at 125th of 191 countries. This shows that there is a gap between the law established and its effectivity in brazilian society. In the case of Rio Grande do Sul State, there has been a steady increase in the judicialization of health care, as a way to try to resolve the lack of organization and other problems in the "Sistema Único de Saúde" (SUS), brought by the community, utilizing a normative logic bottom up. In this sense, communication between the social subsystems of law and health are increased by the ambient, where there are other systems, all of them making the sanitary protections even more complex. The present article seeks to investigate in which way democracy and global transparency contributes to improve the right to sanitary health in the Rio Grande do Sul State, as well as to demonstrate which means are available to citizens of that region to obtain those rights.