A panorama of health inequalities in Brazil

Landmann-Szwarcwald, Celia; Macinko, James

doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0462-1

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“…Mexico, for instance, has institutionalized monitoring systems – which capture health inequality monitoring – that are linked to public policies that target the poor [16]. Brazil collects municipality-level data and conducts household surveys, which enable extensive national health inequality monitoring [17,18]. …”

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National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities

Hosseinpoor

Bergen

Schlotheuber

et al. 2018

Global Health Action

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National health inequality monitoring needs considerably more investment to realize equity-oriented health improvements in countries, including advancement towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Following an overview of national health inequality monitoring and the associated resource requirements, we highlight challenges that countries may encounter when setting up, expanding or strengthening national health inequality monitoring systems, and discuss opportunities and key initiatives that aim to address these challenges. We provide specific proposals on what is needed to ensure that national health inequality monitoring systems are harnessed to guide the reduction of health inequalities.

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Section: Key Challengesmentioning

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National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities

Hosseinpoor

Bergen

Schlotheuber

et al. 2018

Global Health Action

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“…Political scientists analyse the importance of decentralisation in making politicians and public policies more responsive to citizens, as well as association between party orientation -right, centre, and left -and preferences for more redistribution, or more state or market (Arretche and Marquez 2002;Viana, Fausto and Lima 2003;Ouverney and Fleury 2017). Specialists in public management have explored the capacity of different contractual arrangements to promote greater efficiency in public services (Barradas and Mendes 2007;Ibañez and Vecina Neto 2007;La Forgia and Couttolenc 2008;Sano and Abrucio 2008;Médici 2011;Greve and Coelho 2017), 5 while authors connected to public health have made efforts to demonstrate the connections between advances in primary care and improvement, whether in health indicators or in reducing inequalities (Hone et al 2017;Macinko et al 2007; Landmann-Szwarcwald and Macinko 2016).…”

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Nelson¹,

Bloom²,

Shankland³

2018

IDS Bulletin

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Volume 49 | Number 2 | March 2018 IDS Bulletin The IDS Bulletin is an open access, peer-review journal exploring emerging international development challenges. It is published bi-monthly and is the flagship publication of the Institute of Development Studies, a leading global institution for research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications, based at the University of Sussex. Progressive economic, social and political change for everyone needs new kinds of action and relationships, shaped by new kinds of research and engagement. The IDS Bulletin aims to transform development knowledge, through its unique thematic issues developed by global learning partnerships that bridge academic, practice and policy discourse.

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“…In poor and developing countries, where health inequalities are of the highest magnitude, there are few examples of the latter being among the priorities of public policy. For example, following the establishment by the WHO of its Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Brazil, which is a country with immense social and health inequalities, created its own national commission 45 . However, after two years of work this commission produced a report which, in the main, was not assimilated into government actions 46 .…”

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Desigualdades em Saúde: uma perspectiva global

Barreto

2017

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The objective of this article is to present health inequalities as a global problem which afflicts the populations of the poorest countries, but also those of the richest countries, and whose persistence represents one of the most serious and challenging health problems worldwide. Two components of global inequalities are highlighted: inequalities between groups within the same society, and inequalities between nations. The understanding that many of these inequalities are unjust, and therefore inequities, is largely derived from the inequalities that are identified between the various social groups of a given society. Inequalities between different societies and nations, while relevant and often of greater magnitude, are not always considered to be unjust. There have been several proposed solutions, which vary according to different theoretical interpretations and explanations. At the global level, the most plausible thesis has focused on improving global governance mechanisms. While that latter are attractive and have some arguments in their favor, they are insufficient because they do not incorporate an understanding of how the historical process of the constitution of the nations occurred and the importance of the position of each country in the global productive system.

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A panorama of health inequalities in Brazil

Cited by 92 publications

References 18 publications

National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities

National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities

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Desigualdades em Saúde: uma perspectiva global

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