Abstract
The populational control of wandering animals and the well-being of animals are among the non-resolved public policies in Brazil. The lack (or non-application) of educational and punitive laws in the area are some of the reasons for implementing Federal, State, and Municipal Public Policies dealing with this issue. The aim of this literature review is to reflect on the need for developing public policies focused on the surveillance and control of zoonoses in Brazil. By deductive reasoning, associated with bibliographic revision and documental research, we studied the norms, doctrines, and philosophical currents relevant to the area. We provide a brief summary of public policies in general. Next, we approach the concept of unified health, that considers the interdependency between human health, animal health and environmental health. We analyze the judicialization of public policies so that the State and the collectivity observe their duty to guard animals and protect the fauna. In this way, they may indirectly help to protect the human being. We try to enforce the implementation of public policies centered on the protection of animals, of the environment, and of human beings deriving from the concept of unified health.
Highlights
Public policies represent government actions to solve a public problem
The issue of sick animals abandoned on the streets of our cities represents a public problem that causes inconveniences such as traffic accidents, bites, spreading of garbage, nondelivery of correspondence by the postal services, as well as discomfort resulting from the view of a suffering animal (SILVA et al, 2019)
DEVELOPMENT Methodology This article represents a study based on the revision of the specific literature dealing with animal rights
Summary
The issue of sick animals abandoned on the streets of our cities represents a public problem that causes inconveniences such as traffic accidents, bites, spreading of garbage, nondelivery of correspondence by the postal services, as well as discomfort resulting from the view of a suffering animal (SILVA et al, 2019). Animals such as pets live side by side with humans in great urban centers and are often treated as members of the family. As a result of such manifestations, the Supreme Court has recurrently legislated for the unconstitutionality of cruel practices against the fauna, such as in traditional festivities involving the overturning of the ox, or other forms of bull molestation, and cock-fights (RIBEIRO; MAROTTA, 2017)
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