Responses of the Brazilian health system to the emergency of the Zika virus: different strategies adopted by the states of Ceará and Rio de Janeiro
Mariana Vercesi de Albuquerque,
Vera Lucia Edais Pepe,
Lenice Gnocchi da Costa Reis
et al.
Abstract:The article analyzes the cases of health system reprogramming in response to the Zika emergency in the states of Ceará (CE) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), from 2015 to 2017. The research was anchored in the historical and institutionalist approach and the literature on regionalization and health care networks. It involved analyzing government documents and conducting interviews with key actors mobilized in the states’ response to the epidemic. For each state, the following aspects were primarily explored: context, p… Show more
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