This paper aims to discuss strategies and ways of realization of health as a right, to reflect on the limits and possibilities of using state and non-state mechanisms for their claim in Brazil and Portugal. To this end, we conducted qualitative and quantitative research to compare challenges for ensuring the right to health with a focus on access to justice and the repertoires of collective action. The results show that the complexity of the election of state or non-state mechanism is strongly related to the legal culture of citizens, as well as political and economic factors arising from the structure of opportunities for each of the locations.
Judiciary; right to health; collective action; judicialization of health
