En la primera parte del presente artículo se desarrollan conceptos y aspectos normativos del derecho a la salud, a fin de evidenciar la naturaleza de la injerencia del Estado en el ámbito de la salud y el contenido del derecho que se pretende proteger y restituir con el ejercicio de la potestad sancionadora administrativa; asimismo, se formula una breve reseña de la Reformade Salud en el Perú, emprendida con el paquete de decretos legislativos emitidos por el Ejecutivo, publicados entre el 12 de septiembre y el 07 de diciembre del año 2013, conforme a las facultades conferidas por el Legislativo mediante la Ley N° 30073, con la finalidad de exponer el contexto en el cual se confirió la potestad sancionadora en materia de salud a la Superintendencia Nacional de Salud (SUSALUD). En el aspecto central de la propuestase presenta el procedimiento administrativo sancionador de SU...

El derecho a la salud es un derecho universal de segunda generación clasificado en el conjunto de los derechos sociales, económicos y culturales de la humanidad siendo aceptado en el mundo por su carácter programático. A punto de llegar a los cien años de ese reconocimiento, su carácter de derecho operativo, exigible y tutelable o subjetivo constitucionalmente reconocido se ha venido consolidando gracias al desarrollo de la jurisprudencia de los tribunales constitucionales; posteriormente a ese fenómeno jurídico, en nuestro país, se regula su exigibilidad vía proceso de amparo en el Código Procesal Constitucional y se amplía su protección, en ambos ámbitos, con las facultades asignadas al órgano regulador y fiscalizador del sector salud a nivel nacional, de potestad administrativa sancionadora. 

The right to health is a universal right of second-generation, classified in the setof social, economic and cultural rights of mankind; gaining acceptance worldwide for its programmatic nature. On the verge of reaching 100 years of that recognition, its character of constitutionally recognized, operational, enforceable or subjective right has been consolidated thanks to the development of the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts; subsequent to this legal phenomenon, its enforceability trough protective process of amparo in the constitutional code of procedure is regulated in our country and expands its protection, in both areas, the powers assigned to the regulatory and supervisory body of the health sector at the national level, of administrative sanctioning power.

In the first part of this article develops concepts and policy aspects of the right to health, in order to reveal the nature of the interference of the State in the field of health and the content of the law that aims to protect and restore with the exercise of administrative powers to impose penalties; also formulates a brief overview of health reform in the Peru, undertaken with the package of legislative decrees issued by the Executive, published between September 12 and December 07, the year 2013, in accordance with the powers conferred by the legislature through the law N ° 30073, in order to explain the context in which was given powers to impose penalties in the field of health the national Superintendence of health (SUSALUD).The central aspect of the proposal is the administrative penalties procedure for SUSALUD: its background, actors, structure, infractions, sanctions...

In the first part of this article develops concepts and policy aspects of the right to health, in order to reveal the nature of the interference of the State in the field of health and the content of the law that aims to protect and restore with the exercise of administrative powers to impose penalties; also formulates a brief overview of health reform in the Peru, undertaken with the package of legislative decrees issued by the Executive, published between September 12 and December 07, the year 2013, in accordance with the powers conferred by the legislature through the law N ° 30073, in order to explain the context in which was given powers to impose penalties in the field of health the national Superintendence of health (SUSALUD).The central aspect of the proposal is the administrative penalties procedure for SUSALUD: its background, actors, structure, infractions, sanctions...

The right to health is a universal right of second-generation, classified in the setof social, economic and cultural rights of mankind; gaining acceptance worldwide for its programmatic nature. On the verge of reaching 100 years of that recognition, its character of constitutionally recognized, operational, enforceable or subjective right has been consolidated thanks to the development of the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts; subsequent to this legal phenomenon, its enforceability trough protective process of amparo in the constitutional code of procedure is regulated in our country and expands its protection, in both areas, the powers assigned to the regulatory and supervisory body of the health sector at the national level, of administrative sanctioning power.