title: Access the Unified Health System actions and services from the perspective of judicialization.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  the judicialization of health is incorporated into the daily work of health institutions in Brazil through the court orders for access. In this study, the objective was to describe the contents of the social representations of access, through judicialization, for the health professionals.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative study based on Social Representations Theory, involving 40 professionals, at a teaching hospital and at the center for the regulation of beds and procedures in Rio de Janeiro. Forty semistructured interviews were held, to which the thematic-categorical content analysis technique was applied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the health professionals' attitude towards the reality the judicialization imposes is negative, but they acknowledge this resource as necessary in view of the public health crisis. Judicialization is considered a strategy to exercise citizenship that superimposes individual on collective law, increases social inequalities in access and compromises the efficacy of health policies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  considering social representation as a determinant of practices, the representations that emerged can contribute to the change of the professionals' practices. Improvements in user care should be promoted, characterized as one of the main challenges to advance in universal access to health.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raquel de Souza
authors.initials: Rde S
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Antonio Marcos Tosoli
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Denize Cristina
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sergio Corrêa
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Marques
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thelma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Spindola
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Virginia Paiva Figueiredo
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Nogueira
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans