Health and equity in Latin America: utopias and reality

Amorim, Annibal Coelho de; Fernandes, Valcler Rangel; Sérgio, Juraci Vieira; Silva, José Paulo Vicente da

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“…Curitiba’s Declaration highlighted equity as a prerequisite for health and as an essential element of health promotion [ 28 ]. Many countries are facing insufficient health costs, vulnerable groups difficulty accessing health care, and inequity factors between countries.…”

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Core policies disparity response to COVID-19 among BRICS countries

Jiao

Shi

Zhang

et al. 2022

Int J Equity Health

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Objective To provide experience for formulating prevention and control policies, this study analyzed the effectiveness of the Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) prevention and control policies, and evaluated health equity and epidemic cooperation among BRICS countries. Methods This study summarized the pandemic prevention and control policies in BRICS countries and evaluated the effectiveness of those policies by extracting COVID-19 related data from official websites. Result As of May 4, 2021, responding to COVID-19. China adopted containment strategies. China’s total confirmed cases (102,560) were stable, without a second pandemic peak, and the total deaths per million (3.37) were much lower than others. India and South Africa who adopted intermediate strategies have similar pandemic curves, total confirmed cases in India (20,664,979) surpassed South Africa (1,586,148) as the highest in five countries, but total deaths per million (163.90) lower than South Africa (919.11). Brazil and Russia adopted mitigation strategies. Total confirmed cases in Brazil (14,856,888) and Russia (4,784,497) continued to increase, and Brazil’s total deaths per million (1,936.34) is higher than Russia (751.50) and other countries. Conclusion This study shows BRICS countries implemented different epidemic interventions. Containment strategy is more effective than intermediate strategy and mitigation strategy in limiting the spread of COVID-19. Especially when a strict containment strategy is implemented in an early stage, but premature relaxation of restrictions may lead to rebounding. It is a good choice to combat COVID-19 by improving the inclusiveness of intervention policies, deepening BRICS epidemic cooperation, and increasing health equities.

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Core policies disparity response to COVID-19 among BRICS countries

Jiao

Shi

Zhang

et al. 2022

Int J Equity Health

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“…As seen in the practice of the GHI, a means-tested approach is an essential component of "universal" health coverage in Turkey. Also, the reliability of implementing the GHI, through which the premiums of the poorest segments of society are to be subsidized by the national budget to overcome the equity concerns of neoliberal healthcare reforms, is controversial not only in Turkey but also in other countries undergoing similar transformations (e.g., Homaie Rad et al 2017;Rotarou and Sakellariou 2017;Ortega and Orsini 2020;Plamondon 2020;Forster et al 2020;Viens 2019;Amorim et al 2019). For example, researchers argue that a significant amount of non-take-up of the GHI (Green Card) scheme indicates large out-of-pocket health expenditures, "and for a considerable number of households these expenditures reach as high as 20 percent of their total annual income" (Erus et al 2015: 100).…”

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Putting the Neoliberal Transformation of Turkish Healthcare System and Its Problems into a Historical Perspective

Konuralp

Bicer

2021

Review of Radical Political Economics

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The principal objective of this article is to analyze how the Health Transformation Program (HTP), the latest reform to have overhauled the Turkish healthcare system, has been designed according to the project of global neoliberal capital accumulation. This reform is in line with the transformation of the Turkish economy, which has been ongoing since the 1980s. With this aim in mind, this research examines how neoliberalism affects both the provision of healthcare services and household healthcare expenditures in Turkey. The article concludes that, as well as the HTP transferring public funds to the private sector and promoting the rent-seeking characteristic of the Turkish bourgeoisie, the financial burden of healthcare services on primarily the middle and lower-income groups in Turkey has increased dramatically and led to a rise in out-of-pocket expenditures. JEL Classification: H51, I14

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“…Finally, among utopias and realities in Latin America [18], the cartography of practices and their respective territorialization in IdeiaSUS, as well as the virtual bank, can progressively constitute a space in which researchers from various areas can collect and research data about initiatives that seek to address health inequities throughout the country.…”

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The Initiative IdeiaSUS and the Perspectives of a Collaborative Network: For an Ecology of Locoregional Knowledge

Amorim¹

2020

JQHE

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This is a paper about IdeiaSUS, an Oswaldo Cruz Foundation's initiative associated with CONASS & CONASEMS, two health secretaries organizations of nationwide, which attempts to focus on a theoretical framework to structure a collaborative network of practices and experiences within SUS, the Unified Health System of Brazil.Our intent was to address how a comprehensive methodology might help tangible local knowledge emerge as a territorial innovation by fostering social mobilization, with the purpose of characterizing whether these arrangements converge to what is called a community of practices.The authors emphasize that the existence of IdeiaSUS/Fiocruz as a collaborative platform opens new perspectives for the analysis and systematization of registered practices, as well as the establishment of curatorships in collaboration with academic consortia and partners of Fiocruz/Conass/Conasems, which in recent years has promoted the discussion of health practices by professionals and managers in SUS.

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Health and equity in Latin America: utopias and reality

Cited by 7 publications

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Core policies disparity response to COVID-19 among BRICS countries

Core policies disparity response to COVID-19 among BRICS countries

Putting the Neoliberal Transformation of Turkish Healthcare System and Its Problems into a Historical Perspective

The Initiative IdeiaSUS and the Perspectives of a Collaborative Network: For an Ecology of Locoregional Knowledge

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