The constitutionalization of the social state and the right to health in El Salvador

Abstract

I refer to the letter “The importance of health rights in health legislation”, published in volume 7, number 2, of Alerta. In that publication, a contemporary debate over the effectiveness of the right to health protection in the Salvadoran context can be identified. In this regard, I wish to continue this debate, not from the immediacy of current problems, but from a more structural level: the constitutionalization of the social state, and its decisive connection with the right to health, which is the subject of this correspondence.