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0206/2020 - International capital companies and the Brazilian health system: A study on renal replacement therapy
Empresas de capital internacional e o sistema de saúde Brasileiro: Um estudo sobre terapia renal substitutiva

Author:

• Antonio Pescuma Junior - Pescuma Jr. - <antoniopescuma@alumni.usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9141-3497

Co-author(s):

• Daniel Figueiredo de Almeida Alves - Alves, D.F.A. - <d.fig94@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0080-1919
• Aquilas Mendes - Mendes, A - <aquilasmendes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5632-4333
• Aylene Bousquat - Bousquat, A. - <aylenebousquat@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-1570


Abstract:

The liberalization of foreign capital in health has developed a new trend in the process of capital accumulation in the health’s economic industrial complex, especially in the levels of tertiary care and services of Care, Treatment and Diagnosis (SCTD). In order to contribute to the understanding of this dynamic, this article sought to analyze the acquisition process of Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) clinics by companies of international capital in Brazil. To this end, a two-stage methodological path was developed; the first consists in the quantitative-descriptive analysis, a economic modality, of all the companies of international capital that operate in the production, technologies and in the assistance services in RRT; the second developed in a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews of key actorsthe private and public sectors and organized civil society. Therefore, the process of advancing te international capitalbrings with it a qualitative change in the organization, assistance and financing of RRT. We can find, especially in the cases of complementary public and private services, a tendency to restrict care and an obstacle to the universal right to health.

Keywords:

Political Economy of Health. Public health. Health systems. Renal dialysis.

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Pescuma Jr., Alves, D.F.A., Mendes, A, Bousquat, A.. International capital companies and the Brazilian health system: A study on renal replacement therapy. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/Jul). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/international-capital-companies-and-the-brazilian-health-system-a-study-on-renal-replacement-therapy/17688



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