Vol. 46 No. especial 8 dez (2022): Resilience of National Health Systems

The scientific editors of ‘Saúde em Debate’ special issue ‘Resilience of National Health Systems’ present the journal: “[...] The Special Thematic Issue (NTE) offers a comprehensive and diverse panel of articles, essays, digests, and reviews from a domestic and international perspective on resilience, sustainability, and institutional capacity in the health sector. [...] The works point to the construction of a research agenda on the capacity of national systems or health organizations to respond to radical disturbances. It is assumed, in this sense, that the identification of resilience can favor the strengthening of the health system and ensure collective protection. [...] To reflect on these particularities, the NTE brings together several studies and research on the functioning of the SUS, with special emphasis on dilemmas and innovations in Primary Health Care (PHC)”.

Topics covered: Assessment of Primary Health Care: The ‘Previne Brasil’ Program; International inequality in the fight against COVID-19 and public spending; Health Care Network during disaster situations: a case study of the Kiss Nightclub in Santa Maria-RS; Political epistemes of COVID-19; Health Gym Program in the COVID-19 pandemic; Resilient performance of primary care longitudinality during the COVID-19 pandemic in vulnerable territories in the city of Rio de Janeiro; COVID-19 pandemic and hospitalization in the g100 municipalities; APS Award in the Unified Health System-Brazil; Artificial intelligence and forecasting of death by COVID-19 in Brazil; Resilience in public health: precepts, concepts, challenges, and perspectives; confronting post-COVID-19 health inequalities and vulnerabilities; Health systems resilience: notes for a research agenda for the SUS; Contribution of logistics to the strengthening of national production and universal access in the scope of the Unified Health System; Social technologies for disaster risk management actions; Oil disasters and government actions in the face of social, environmental, and health-related impacts; critical review ‘Health as a human right: The politics and judicialisation of health in Brazil’ by Octávio Luiz M. Ferraz.