Epidemia e mundo securitário

Teixeira, Ricardo Rodrigues

doi:10.1590/s1414-32831998000100005

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“…Chama a atenção, neste estudo, o enfoque do dengue como uma doença benigna no pri- meiro ano de registro da epidemia em Belo Horizonte. É importante lembrar que o caráter de "uma ameaça, um perigo que corre em meio ao povo", impregnado nas próprias origens etimológicas do termo "epidemia", basta para que as enfermidades e suas formas epidêmicas ativem o imaginário social sobre a vida e a morte 23 . Esse é um processo coletivo de elaboração de sentidos, que afeta a compreensão do próprio viver social e o reconhecimento dos riscos de adoecer e morrer nele implícitos.…”

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Epidemias de dengue e divulgação de informações pela imprensa

2004

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The occurrence of successive dengue epidemics in Brazil highlights the importance of information dissemination by the media. As a sphere for mediation in contemporary societies, the news media produce, expand, and circulate information and meanings that affect people's decisions. In order to contribute to the discussion, this study analyzes coverage by the main daily newspaper in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on dengue epidemics in that State capital from 1996 to 2000, assessing the priority ascribed to the epidemics as news and the various approaches to the disease. Some 446 news stories were selected, classified according to the themes approached in the titles and in the body of the articles. There was a close relationship between the number of news stories and the number of reported dengue cases, with "peaks" in coverage coinciding with outbreaks. According to this study, the news priority for epidemics and the limited space reserved for prevention highlight the need for epidemiological surveillance services to consider strategies to disseminate information through the mass media, aimed at fostering more participatory interventions that would thus be more efficient in the prevention of epidemics.

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Epidemias de dengue e divulgação de informações pela imprensa

2004

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“…At present, COVID-19 is seen as a pandemic, a new "plague", referring to the matrix metaphor of the plague expressed in the coalescence of two semantic nuclei: contagion/death [50]. The term epidemic, which refers to a disease that suddenly affects a large number of people and can cause a high number of deaths, has a very close meaning to the Latin word pestis.…”

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The COVID-19 Contagion–Pandemic Dyad: A View from Social Sciences

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Martins

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The objective of this concept paper focuses on the relevance of the analytical potential of Social Sciences for understanding the multiple implications and challenges posed by the COVID-19 contagion–pandemic dyad. This pandemic is generating a global threat with a high number of deaths and infected individuals, triggering enormous pressure on health systems. Most countries have put in place a set of procedures based on social distancing, as well as (preventive) isolation from possible infected and transmitters of the disease. This crisis has profound implications and raises issues for which the contribution of Social Sciences does not seem to be sufficiently mobilised. The contribution of Social Sciences is paramount, in terms of their knowledge and skills, to the knowledge of these problematic realities and to act in an informed way on these crises. Social Sciences are a scientific project focused on interdisciplinarity, theoretical and methodological plurality. This discussion is developed from the systems of relationships between social phenomena in the coordinates of time and place, and in the socio-historical contexts in which they are integrated. A pandemic is a complex phenomenon as it is always a point of articulation between natural and social determinations. The space of the discourse on the COVID-19 pandemic can be understood as the expression of a coalition of discourses, i.e., the interaction of various discourses, combined in re-interpretative modalities of certain realities and social phenomena. The circumstantial coalitions of interests, which shape the different discursive records and actions produced by different agents of distinct social spaces, enable the acknowledgement and legitimation of this pandemic threat and danger, and the promotion of its public management.

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“…O homem é representado como receptor vigilante de causas que podem lhe trazer danos ou proteção. O espaço torna-se percebido como complexo de estímulos irradiados e exteriores ao corpo, que se impõe centralmente a todos (Teixeira, 1993). O contato entre os homens e a natureza tendeu a ser progressivamente representado como vínculo indireto, mediado por imagens cada vez mais abstratas, tanto do corpo, como do espaço, deixando de ser simbolizado como vínculo direto e concreto.…”

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Debate sobre o artigo de Dina Czeresnia & Adriana Maria Ribeiro

Albuquerque

2000

Cad. Saúde Pública

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This study provides an interpretation of the concept of space in epidemiology. The authors highlight that the epistemological orientation of the space concept in epidemiology is the theory of disease, emphasizing the importance of the concept of specific etiologic agents and their transmission as the central structure for grasping the relationship between space and the body. Characterization of the space for circulation of etiologic agents was the epistemological base shaping the use of various theoretical developments in geography, allowing for the construction of different explanatory watersheds in the concept of space. The article specifically analyzes the Latin American watershed, reviewing the main authors orienting these studies, like Pavlovsky, Max Sorre, and Samuel Pessoa. The authors highlight Milton Santos' thinking as a fundamental reference in recent research on the social organization of space and disease emergence or prevalence. The authors also approach contemporary changes in the understanding of space as they are reflected in epidemiological studies.

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Epidemia e mundo securitário

Cited by 6 publications

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Epidemias de dengue e divulgação de informações pela imprensa

Epidemias de dengue e divulgação de informações pela imprensa

The COVID-19 Contagion–Pandemic Dyad: A View from Social Sciences

Debate sobre o artigo de Dina Czeresnia & Adriana Maria Ribeiro

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