Abstract
Objective: To verify the amount of activities carried out by the Health Defense Nucleus - NUDESA, which belongs to the Public Defender's Office of the State of Ceará, and among these activities verify the number of actions filed in the years 2017 and 2018 before the Judicial Branch of the city of Fortaleza. Method: Descriptive, qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional study based on the retrospective evaluation of the activities carried out by NUDESA in the period from 01/01/2017 to 12/31/2018. Result: It was verified that NUDESA only carried out 13,898 visits in the city of Fortaleza, of which 5,755 were actions brought before the Judicial Branch of the city of Fortaleza in the years 2017 and 2018. Conclusion: After analysis, it was verified that several problems related to health have been causing the legal phenomenon known as health judicialization in the country, and not unlike the city of Fortaleza goes through this process, through NUDESA it was verified that there was an increase in the number of between the first half of 2017 and the second half of 2018, there was an increase of 59.1%, and a 49% increase in the comparison of 2017 and 2018.