A Saúde Coletiva em movimento: XII Congresso Brasileiro de Saúde Coletiva (Abrascão 2018)

Abstract

These are troubled times in Brazil's history: political instability, legal uncertainty, economic crisis, a systematic assault on social and labor rights, public policies, and public universities, growing market privileges, and budget slashes (including in science and technology). The champions of this backward, nearsighted movement, which attempts to repeal the 1988 Federal Constitution and further oppress the underprivileged classes and social groups, are the same ones that have always opposed fairer income distribution and democratic progress in Brazil.Hope and despair are socially produced in tandem. The predominant feeling among most Brazilian women and men is one of outrage, but such widespread dissatisfaction has been inconsequential so far, accompanied by indifference, passiveness, and distrust.A gloomy context. The current situation also results from the inability of many dissatisfied Brazilians to resist the conservative inroads. Brazil's crisis also stems from inadequate positions of the political parties and social movements that played a decisive role both in creating the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) and in guaranteeing civil, social, and political rights. The powers-that-be certainly bear the primary blame for the country's crisis, but nobody is completely innocent. In order to rethink Brazil, we need to reflect on the organization and practices of the health reform movement, representative organizations, and social movements as a whole.In recent years, the Brazilian Collective Health Association (Abrasco) has based its action on this understanding, seeking to radically democratize the Brazilian state and society, and thus our own association. Inspired by the expression that "Hope is in us... and in others", we say that resistance and social changes will depend on the people, on our capacity for activism and collaboration. Whatever the fate of the powers-that-be, no matter how serious the country's crisis, we must do our part to defend the SUS, our proposals, the right to health, and public university. This daunting challenge will also require renewing our political praxis, the way we deal with diversity and conflict.We are organizing the 12th Brazilian Congress of Collective Health (Abrascão 2018) in this same spirit, under the aegis of inclusion and diversity, working to expand participation by members of the Thematic Groups (TGs), Committees, students, SUS workers, re-

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“…Journals of such stature as Nature acknowledged the bias and took steps that allowed increasing the proportion of female referees from 14% to 22%, between 2011 and 2015 9 . In Brazil, the last Brazilian Congress of Epidemiology innovated by promoting gender equity in round tables and panel discussions 10 , a criterion that has also oriented the work by the Scientific Committee for the upcoming Brazilian Congress of Collective Health, to be held in July 2018 11 .…”