The article analyses both the Brazilian and the Portuguese health policy from the guarantee of universality in the two-country process of democratization to the current days. The changes in the two countries after the nineties will be highlighted, with emphasis on the management of health services with the creation of "new" management models. The article also discusses the problem of abortion as a public health issue briefly because it is a topic on debate in both countries nowadays, although that is not the subject of this article.
Health policy; Changes in health care management; Health management
