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1. Resposta à aids no Brasil: contribuições dos movimentos sociais e da reforma sanitária.

Author

Grangeiro, Alexandre, da Silva, Lindinalva Laurindo, and Teixeira, Paulo Roberto

Subjects
*PUBLIC health, *HEALTH policy, *AIDS, *EPIDEMICS, *SOCIAL movements, *SOCIAL criticism, *MEDICAL care
Abstract

This paper briefly outlines how the political scenario and the mobilization of different actors have contributed to the construction of a public health policy in response to the AIDS epidemics in Brazil. Three factors are presented and discussed: the political context of the 1980s, characterized by redemocratization, growth of social movements, and consolidation of the Brazilian health care reform; the socio-cultural context of the 1970s and 1980s, characterized by achievement of individual freedom, which was key to the organization of the AIDS movement; and finally the actions carried out in the international scenario to support the sustainability of the Brazilian domestic policy and the reinforcement of a global response to face the epidemics in lower-middle income economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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2. Health priorities in Brazil in the 1990s: three policies, many lessons.

Author

Machado, Cristiani Vieira

Subjects
*DECENTRALIZATION in government, *PUBLIC health, *PUBLIC welfare, BRAZIL. Ministry of Health
Abstract

This paper, which focuses on the Brazilian Ministry of Health's agenda as the national health authority between 1990 and 2002, identifies and analyzes Ministry priorities. Three ,lain policies were identified for the period: decentralization, establishment of a family health program, and the policy to combat AIDS. In general, the initial design of these policies was consistent with the guidelines of the Brazilian public health system (SUS). Howitzer, discrepancies were found between the universalistic agenda of the Brazilian health reform carried out in the 1980s and the hegemonic agenda of state reform that prevailed in the country in the 1990s, which had liberal roots and did not favor the expansion of government actions and comprehensive social policies. Within this unfavorable political and economic context, the development of specific health policies prioritized by the Brazilian Ministry of Health revealed unsolved problems and gaps in the public health system and limitations in the Ministry's ability to exercise its role as national health authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006