Impacts of the counter-reform on health policy in times of pandemic in Brazil

The legal-normative framework of health policy, which was based on the Brazilian health movement and was embodied in the Unified Health System (SUS), is marked in its conception by an expanded vision based on the universality of access and health as a right and, therefore, cannot be regulated by the...

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Autor: Carvalho, Mariana Setúbal Nassar de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Campos dos Goytacazes
Repositorio:Vértices (Campos dos Goitacazes. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.editoraessentia.iff.edu.br:article/15730
Acceso en línea:https://editoraessentia.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/15730
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Counter-reformation
Health policy
Social inequality
Contrarreforma
Política sanitaria
Desigualdad social
Política de saúde
Desigualdade social
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Sumario:The legal-normative framework of health policy, which was based on the Brazilian health movement and was embodied in the Unified Health System (SUS), is marked in its conception by an expanded vision based on the universality of access and health as a right and, therefore, cannot be regulated by the market. However, since its beginnings, which date back to the Federal Constitution of 1988, SUS has been suffering the effects of the State's counter-reform - despite resistance from social movements -, translated especially in the implementation of privatizing management models and in public funding, like the Constitutional Menu No. 95/2016. This is a particularly dramatic scenario in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which unveils the devastating effect of the scrapping of health services, still traversed by the historic Brazilian social inequality, which has particularly harmful impacts for the most impoverished population of blacks and browns.