Vol. 45 No. 131 out-dez (2021): Saúde em Debate

“Over these last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has translated into a catastrophic event, which, in addition to exposing the emphasis of public policies by the federal government against the citizenship rights conferred by the Federal Constitution of 1988, shows, each increasingly, a political determination to destroy the civilizing role of the State in guaranteeing individual and collective rights. This is a criminal political attitude, which disregards the vulnerability and enormous inequality in the Brazilian population, which are only increasing during this health crisis. Contrary to what should be done, morally and constitutionally, it was necessary to implement policies aimed at controlling, overcoming, and reducing the economic, social, cultural, educational, and science and technology impacts that the pandemic had created. [...] The activities of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes) in the struggle for the democratization of society and the defense of social rights, in particular the universal right to health, were intensified by the articulation of partnerships between people and institutions, social movements, committed to reform the Brazilian health in the expectation of strengthening and mobilizing against this current situation of underfunding and dismantling the Unified Health System (SUS) and the rights conquered through the Citizen Constitution!” – Excerpts from the Editorial ‘Cebes in the struggle during the Covid-19 pandemic’ from the latest issue of the journal Saúde em Debate, 2021, by Lucia Souto and Carlos Silva.

The journal presents: regionalization and federative crisis in the COVID-19 pandemic; care for women in situations of violence; low-risk emergencies: integration between Primary Care and the Emergency Care Unit; work in multidisciplinary teams in Primary Care in Ceará; Organization of Primary Health Care in a rural municipality in Brazil; health care strategies for the black rural population in Caruaru/Pernambuco; public-private conflict in the SUS: specialized outpatient care in Paraná; pharmaceutical care: revolution or paradigmatic twilight?; pay by performance to Primary Care Teams: analysis from the PMAQ-AB cycles; Primary Health Care teams in the rapid test for Sexually Transmitted Infections; assistance and adherence to antiretrovirals in specialized HIV services in Pernambuco/Brazil, 2017-2018; social representations of people living with HIV: self-perception of ego-ecological identity; hospitalization for COVID-19 in the health regions of Brazil; health collapse in Manaus: the burden of not adhering to non-pharmacological measures to reduce the transmission of COVID-19; fulfillment of the goals of the management contracts and quality of health care; More Doctors Program, an attempt to solve the problem of medical distribution in the Brazilian territory; technosociality in the daily life of primary care and health promotion professionals; popular participation and social control in the SUS management.

Visit Saúde em Debate also on the Cebes website – http://cebes.org.br/publicacao-tipo/revista-saude-em-debate/ and on SciELO – https://www.scielo.br/j/sdeb/