title: Right to health: (in) congruence between the legal framework and the health system.
abstract: to discuss the right to health, incorporation into the legal instruments and the deployment in practice in the National Health System in Mozambique.
  
  
  
  this is a documentary analysis of a qualitative nature, which after thorough and interpretative reading of the legal instruments and articles that deal with the right to health, access and universal coverage, resulted in the construction of three empirical categories: instruments of humans rights and their interrelationship with the development of the right to health; the national health system in Mozambique; gaps between theory and practice in the consolidation of the right to health in the country.
  
  
  
  Mozambique ratified several international and regional legal instruments (of Africa) that deal with the right to health and which are ensured in its Constitution. However, their incorporation into the National Health Service have been limited because it can not provide access and universal coverage to health services in an equitable manner throughout its territorial extension and in the different levels of care.
  
  
  
  the implementation of the right to health is complex and will require mobilization of the state and political financial, educational, technological, housing, sanitation and management actions, as well as ensuring access to health, and universal coverage.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mitano
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Paranavaí, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carla Aparecida Arena
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mônica Cristina Ribeiro Alexandre d'Auria
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Lima
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Juvenal Bazilashe
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Balegamire
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Paranavaí, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pedro Fredemir
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Palha
mesh_terms: D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D009073:Mozambique; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D019472:Universal Health Insurance