Articles Cavalcante, C., & Peixoto, A. L. V. D. A. (2025). The role of the Public Defender’s Office in guaranteeing the right to access healthcare: An integrative review. Diversitas Journal, Volume 10 (1), p. 0042-0051. https://www.diversitasjournal.com.br/diversitas_journal/article/download/3140/2861/24129 The Federal Constitution of 1988 ensures the constitutional guarantee of access to justice, full and free legal assistance, in addition to allocating the Public Defender's Office as a permanent institution, essential to the State's jurisdictional function. Thus, the present work aims to carry out an integrative review of the literature that deals with the role of the public defender's office in guaranteeing the right of access to health, highlighting its constitutional role and mission, closely linked to the evolution of the fundamental right of access to a fair legal order, an instrument for the realization of the existential minimum. This is an exploratory r...
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