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0163/2018 - Baixada Fluminense, in the shadow of the \'Sphinx of Rio\': Popular movements and health policies at the birth of SUS.
Na Baixada Fluminense, à sombra da ‘Esfinge do Rio’: Lutas populares e políticas de saúde na alvorada do SUS.

Author:

• Fernando Pires-Alves - Pires-Alves, Fernando - <fpiresalves@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva - Paiva, C.H.A - <chapaiva@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7478-9628
• Nísia Trindade Lima - Lima, NT - <nisia.lima@fiocruz.br>


Abstract:

The article addresses the popular health movement in Nova Iguaçu-RJ in the 1970s and 1980s. Amidst political repression, residents organized themselves to find solutions to various problems, including health problems. The demands for health are potentiated both by the dengue epidemic and by the connections with a Brazilian sanitary reform and the struggle for democracy. Using historical sourcesnewspapers, health articles and documentsthe Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz collection, the article concludes that the example of Nova Iguaçu reveals both the complexity of the process of political opening at the local level and the efforts of conducting a health reform it was most needed. Resistance on the part of the medical corporation, private interests in health, and the existence of a still incipient popular political organization and culture are some of the elements that account for the difficulties in advancing the manifest wishes of the policies. The specificities of the local arenas also point to the possibilities of institutional arrangements, sometimes very peculiar and not reproducible in other scenarios.

Keywords:

Health Services Reform History of public health Popular movements in health History of Nova Iguaçu-RJ Health policy

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Pires-Alves, Fernando, Paiva, C.H.A, Lima, NT. Baixada Fluminense, in the shadow of the \'Sphinx of Rio\': Popular movements and health policies at the birth of SUS.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Apr). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/baixada-fluminense-in-the-shadow-of-the-sphinx-of-rio-popular-movements-and-health-policies-at-the-birth-of-sus/16696?id=16696&id=16696



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