Compliance programs of co-operative societies in the health segment in Brazil: a study about its translative capability
Abstract
This article, adopting a qualitative form and deductive methodology, postulates the adoption of compliance programs by co-operative societies. It argues that these programs enjoy a translative capability, advantageous to translating the risks created by the economy, the multiple objectives pursued by national or private rules and the circumstances of the medical environment. Limiting the research to Brazilian co-operatives which operates in the medical sector, it analyzes the correspondence between the subjects more frequent judged in the national courts and the response given by those co-operative societies. It demonstrates the absence of any conformity. It concludes that the characteristics of these societies represent important achievements considering economic inequality and that compliance programs could promote their permanence.
Received: 19 July 2025; Accepted: 30 March 2025
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