Unified Health System: Reduction of Public Functions and Market Expansion

Krüger, Tânia Regina

doi:10.4000/eces.4478

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“…Therefore, even though the SUS has been challenged for a long time, Bolsonaro has intensified the process of dismantling it, as it challenges his authoritarian policies (Krüger, 2019). The SUS was the result of social movements, which were key to democratization in the late 1980s.…”

Section: The New Coronavirus Pandemic: Implications For Human Rights ...mentioning

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The management (or lack thereof) of COVID-19 in Brazil: implications for human rights and public health

Scherf

Silva

Fachini

2020

IJHRH

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has been managed in Brazil, especially at the Federal Administrative level, with the focus being on the implications for human rights and public health in the country. Design/methodology/approach The research is built on a qualitative design made up of a case-study and review of the literature and is based on inductive reasoning. Findings Main conclusions were that: by not making sufficient efforts to safeguard the lives of Brazilians or to strengthen public health institutions amid the pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Administration may be violating the rights to life and health, among others, by omission; it was demonstrated that the President has worked unceasingly to bulldoze anti-COVID-19 efforts, which can be better explained through the concepts of necropolitics and neoliberal authoritarianism. Research limitations/implications One of the limitations to this research is that this paper was not able to discuss more thoroughly which other human rights norms and principles (apart from the right to health, life and the duty to protect vulnerable populations) have possibly been violated amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Overall, this research can help expand the literature on human rights in health management during and after emergency times. Originality/value This paper focuses on recent events and on urgent matters that need to be addressed immediately in Brazil. This study provides an innovative health policy/human rights analysis to build an academic account of the ongoing pandemic in the largest country in South America.

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Section: The New Coronavirus Pandemic: Implications For Human Rights ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The management (or lack thereof) of COVID-19 in Brazil: implications for human rights and public health

Scherf

Silva

Fachini

2020

IJHRH

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“…Bolsonaro also attempted to end Mais Médicos (More Doctors), a SUS policy which brought around 8,517 Cuban doctors to Brazil to work in remote indigenous villages and the poorer quarters of more than 4,000 towns and cities across the country (Darlington and Casado, 2019). Therefore, even though the SUS has been challenged for a long time, Bolsonaro has intensified the process of dismantling it, as it challenges his authoritarian policies (Krüger, 2019). The SUS was the result of social movements which were key to democratization in the late 1980s.…”

Section: Public Health Systems In Peril: Evidence From Susmentioning

confidence: 99%