Brazil has become one of the epicentres COVID-19 pandemic. The failure President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration to recognise severity pandemic1Burki T in Latin America.Lancet Infect Dis. 2020; 20: 547-548Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (198) Google Scholar is being compounded by neglect Brazil's community health workers (CHWs). In Brazil, there have been no nationwide guidelines for primary care services response. Since CHWs are not considered be professionals, only an estimated...

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This article argues that the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reinscribed neglect has surrounded this disease. The argument develops theoretical tools for understanding how is produced global health. Arguing connected with production of harm and vulnerability, it stresses importance emotions issue-prioritisation Focusing on dynamics abjection, shows was framed as a (racialised) African problem obfuscated by political media spectacle. result preference short-term crisis-management responses...

The critical security studies literature has been marked by a shared commitment towards the politicization of – that is, analysis its assumptions, implications and practices through which it is (re)produced. In recent years, however, accompanied tendency to conceive as connected with logic exclusion, totalization even violence. This resulted in an imbalanced weakens critique. Seeking tackle this situation, present article engages contributions have advanced emancipatory versions security....

How is neoliberalism implicated in concrete health vulnerabilities? do macro-level political economy, policy and institutions translate into everyday experiences? Drawing on Marxist, feminist International Political Economy critiques of life, the article advances an economy focused four key components: power, agency, intersectionality mutual implication global local. These components enable a nuanced investigation experiences disease, local implementation policies context neoliberalism. The...

Resumo O vírus Zika foi isolado pela primeira vez em 1947 Uganda. Se a doença existe desde então, por que somente agora há atenção da mídia, ciência, das agências financiadoras e dos órgãos nacionais internacionais? A partir de uma visão crítica saúde global, considera os contextos sociais, políticos ideológicos, nos quais é enquadrada, almeja-se analisar atual epidemia quatro eixos: (1) investigação processos culturais políticos; (2) análise práticas significação; (3) estudo zonas...

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This article explores the mobilization of power by health workers during policy implementation, showing how in a context discretion and resource scarcity they can reproduce inequalities access to services. The argument innovates theoretically supplementing 'street-level bureaucracy' literature, which emphasizes frontline worker discretion, with conceptualization as domination encompassing shaping behavior, constitution subjects reproduction inequality. Empirically, focuses on Brazilian...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in calls for an increased integration of community health workers (CHWs) into the system response. Historically, CHWs can play important role ensuring sustainability policy implementation - by addressing social determinants and maintaining care ongoing problems. Their frontline work, with close contact to populations, places a position vulnerability becoming infected being target abuse violence. These vulnerabilities compound underlying problems faced CHWs,...

The Covid-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has shown how inadequate institutional strategies interact with, and exacerbate, social inequalities, thus impacting upon intensity of harm produced amplifying negative consequences. One lessons from this pandemic, which happens against background other, interconnected systemic crises, is urgency adopting a 'whole-of-society' approach to determining what does not work in context health emergency response. However, can performance response be...

Abstract It has become common to speak of health security, but the meaning latter is often taken for granted. Existing engagements with this notion have been constrained by an excessive focus on national security and securitising efforts elites. This led increasingly sceptical outlook potentialities making sense of, helping tackle, problems. Inspired idea as emancipation, article reconsiders security. takes its starting point concrete insecurities experienced individuals, engages them way...

The 2015 to 2017 outbreak of Zika generated global attention on the risk a spectrum neurological disorders posed women and their unborn children-including, but not limited to, microcephaly-that came be known as congenital syndrome (CZS).Images cradling babies born with CZS underscored gendered nature epidemic.Nonetheless, media towards highly dimensions was matched by recognition importance female participation in decision-making for control Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector responsible spread...

For the World Health Organization (WHO), 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration marked a move away from disease-specific and technologically-focused programmes of 1950s 1960s towards reimagined strategy to provide ‘Health for All by Year 2000’. This new approach was centred on primary health care, vision based acceptable methods appropriate technologies, devised in collaboration with communities dependent their full participation. Since 1948, WHO had used mass communications strategies publicise its...

The manuscript discusses interfaces between academic and practical fields of Global Health Planetary Health, shedding light on some critical perspectives cumulative synergistic causes global crises, effects health food security, human rights, migration, environment. Concepts the path for Sustainable Development Goals -SDG in context Syndemy Crisis, particular COVID-19 pandemic, are presented. lessons highlight challenges infectious diseases pandemics crisis insecurity, climate emergency....

Health promotion in Brazil relies on community health workers (CHWs), frontline providers linking the system with vulnerable groups. Brazilian CHWs are overwhelmingly women from poor backgrounds, precarious and sometimes hazardous working conditions, as well fragmented unsystematic training. This paper evaluates how COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing vulnerabilities of (pertaining to low salary, conditions inadequate training) created new ones, a profound impact their ability carry...

This article uses the lens of neglect to analyze Brazil’s response COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that was result a mixture omissions, obstructions and actions on part federal government President Jair Bolsonaro. also suggests addressing handling pandemic as simply matter governmental failure risks overlooking multiple forms resistance struggle emerged social forces mobilized sought push back against state’s neglect.

In August 2014, the Brazilian political landscape was rocked by ‘Marina phenomenon’. After death of Eduardo Campos in an airplane accident, presidential ticket Socialis...

What are the analytical benefits of using security vocabulary when addressing issues human well-being? And to what extent can a framing these be useful in normative and political sense – that is, making judgements about existing policies formulating implementing alternative ones? This article uses case food engage with questions. It argues for shift away from conceptual fine-tuning should mean towards an appreciation how functions as modality. Whilst acknowledging this modality work...

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