In defense of the Unified Health System in the context of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

ABSTRACT Objective: To discuss the political and structural conditions for establishing the Unified Health System (UHS – Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) in coping with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Methods: Theoretical-reflection study. Results: At the first moment named “The global and the local in facing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic” is presented the health crisis that took place worldwide and the government actions to combat COVID-19. A second moment named “Between dismantling actions and resistance, the UHS is the best way to face the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic”, reflects on the neoliberal attacks on the health system and how it resists, remaining the main pandemic response strategy. Conclusion: The strengthening of democracy and the defense of the UHS are the way out of the crisis. It is believed that this reflection generates - in everyone who deals with caretaking - the political action, the ethical attitude, the desire for valorization and the spirit of struggle in defense of the UHS and human life.

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The Politicization of Labor in 1905: The Case of Odessa Salesclerks

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/2499988 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 427-445

Author(s):

Robert Weinberg

Keyword(s):

Trade Unions ◽

Political Action ◽

Organized Labor ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

The Political ◽

Remarkable Feature ◽

Collective Rights ◽

Urban Workers ◽

The Government ◽

Opposition Movement

One remarkable feature of the 1905 Russian Revolution was the efflorescence of labor organizations that occurred throughout the urban regions of the empire. Many workers throughout the empire demonstrated their resolve to promote and defend their interests in an organized and rational manner, with the mass labor movement often cutting across craft and occupational divisions to bring all kinds of workers into joint economic and political action against both employer and autocracy. As 1905 progressed the political radicalization of urban workers inspired much of the opposition movement that nearly brought the government to its knees. As several United States historians have recently shown, in 1905 organized labor, particularly trade unions, entered the political arena as a potent force, with workers simultaneously demanding individual rights of citizenship and collective rights of association.

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Costs of bariatric surgery in a teaching hospital and the financing provided by the Public Unified Health System

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira ◽

10.1590/s0102-86502010000200014 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 201-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Wilson Salgado Júnior ◽

Karoline Calfa Pitanga ◽

José Sebastião dos Santos ◽

Ajith Kumar Sankarankutty ◽

Orlando de Castro e Silva Jr ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bariatric Surgery ◽

Health System ◽

Perioperative Period ◽

University Hospital ◽

Retrospective Evaluation ◽

The Public ◽

Unified Health System ◽

The Government ◽

The Cost ◽

The University

PURPOSE: Analyze the effect of some measures on the costs of bariatric surgery, adopting as reference the remuneration of the procedure provided by the Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS: A retrospective evaluation conducted in the Costs Section of the University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto, of the costs involved in the perioperative period for patients submitted to bariatric surgery from 2004 to 2007. Changes in the routines and protocols of the service aiming at the reduction of these costs during the study period were also analyzed. RESULTS: Nine patients in 2004 and seven in 2007 submitted to conventional vertical banded "Roux-en-Y" gastric bypass were studied. All patients presented good postoperative evolution. The average cost with these patients was R$ 6,845.17 in 2004. Even though an effort was made to contain expenditures, the cost in 2007 was of R$ 7,525.64 because of the increase in the price of materials and medicines. The Government remuneration of the procedure in the two years was R$ 3,259.72. CONCLUSION: Despite the adoption of diverse measures to reduce the expenditures of bariatric surgery, in fact there was an increase in the costs, a fact supporting the necessity of permanent evaluation of the financing of public health.

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Caring Cancer Patients While Living With COVID-19: An Experience of a Tertiary Cancer Care Center

Nepalese Journal of Cancer ◽

10.3126/njc.v4i1.31778 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 51-60

Author(s):

Murari Man Shrestha ◽

Hari Prasad Dhakal ◽

Banita Gurung ◽

Sajin Rajbhandary ◽

Sachin Shakya ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cancer Patients ◽

Human Life ◽

Care Center ◽

Control Measures ◽

The Novel ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Treatment Services ◽

Rapid Spread ◽

Novel Virus ◽

The Government

COVID-19 has emerged as a serious public health crisis of 21st century affecting millions of people around the world. First identified in Wuhan China, COVID-19 has spread globally claiming millions of human life and suffering. The Government of Nepal (GoN) has accelerated control measures through mass media, laboratory testing, quarantine, isolation and treatment of COVID patients in designated hospitals. With rapid spread of COVID-19, the government owned as well as the private hospitals and health institutions across the nation face a great challenge to contain the spread of the novel virus. Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Center (NCHRC) has been managing uninterrupted treatment services to cancer patients since the beginning of spread of COVID-19 in Nepal. Early planning and preparedness has been crucial to ensure patient care in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic.

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POLITICAL LIBERTY: WHO NEEDS IT?

Social Philosophy and Policy ◽

10.1017/s0265052511000045 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jason Brennan

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Political Process ◽

The Political ◽

Political Liberty ◽

States Of Affairs ◽

The People ◽

The Social ◽

Social Bases ◽

Political Outcomes ◽

The Government

AbstractThis paper concerns the question of whether the political liberties tend to be valuable to the people who hold them. (In contrast, we might ask whether the liberties are valuable in the aggregate or are owed to people as a matter of justice, regardless of their value.) Philosophers have argued that the political liberties are needed or at least useful to lead a full, human life, to have one's social status and the social bases of self-respect secured, to make the government responsive to one's interests and generate preferred political outcomes, to participate in the process of social construction so that one can feel at home in the social world, to live autonomously as a member of society, to achieve education and enlightenment and take a broad view of the world and of others' interests, and to express oneself and one's attitudes about the political process and current states of affairs. I argue that for most people, the political liberties are not valuable for these reasons.

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The Political Legitimacy of the Healthcare System in Portugal: Insights from the European Social Survey

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9020202 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 202

Author(s):

Maria Asensio

Keyword(s):

Health System ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Social Groups ◽

Political Legitimacy ◽

Negative Attitude ◽

European Social Survey ◽

The Political ◽

Social Survey ◽

Private Households ◽

The Government

This article investigates the political legitimacy of the health care system and the effects of austerity on the population’s welfare, paying particular attention to Portugal, a country severely harmed by the economic crisis. Based on analysis of data collected from the European Social Survey on 14,988 individuals living in private households during the years between 2002 and 2018, the findings of this study aim to analyze the social and political perception of citizens on the state of health services in two distinctive periods—before and after the economic crisis, according to self-interest, ideological preferences, and institutional setup as predictors of the satisfaction with the health system. The results demonstrate a negative attitude towards the health system over the years, a consistent drop during the financial crisis period, and a rapid recovery afterward. The research also shows that healthcare evaluations depend on the perceived institutional effectiveness in the citizenry’s eyes. The more the citizens perceive the government as effective and trust-worthy, the more they are satisfied with the health system. Also, differences in healthcare evaluations among social groups were felt unequally: while vulnerable citizens were more affected by the Government’s plan of austerity measures for health reform, healthcare evaluations of better-off social groups—younger individuals, those with higher incomes, higher education, and better health status—did not decline. This study contributes to the academic debate on the effects of austerity on the population’s welfare attitudes and highlights the need to examine the different impacts of reforms introduced by the crisis on social groups.

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Green Populism? Action and Mortality in the Anthropocene

Environmental Values ◽

10.3197/096327120x15752810323940 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 647-668 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William Davies

Keyword(s):

Political Action ◽

Human Life ◽

Laws Of Nature ◽

Environmental Values ◽

Western Philosophy ◽

The Political ◽

Science And Politics ◽

Common Logic ◽

Political Realm

The rise of 'populism', often conflated with authoritarianism, is frequently viewed as being antagonistic to environmental values, where the latter are associated with 'liberal elites'. However, with a less pejorative understanding of populism, we might be able to identify elements within that can be usefully channelled and mobilised towards the urgent rescue of human and non-human life. This paper seeks to illuminate a 'green populism' using Hannah Arendt's analysis of the tension between science and politics. In Arendt's account, Western philosophy and science is predicated on a rejection of the mortal realm of politics, in search of eternal laws of nature. However, the pressing mortality of nature has pushed it back into the political realm, shrinking the distance between science and politics. Where nature itself is defined by its mortality, environmentalism and political action acquire a common logic, which could fuel a participatory, green populism.

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El valor pluralismo político del art. 1.1 de la Constitución ante la reestructuración del sistema político y económico

RVAP 118 - Revista Vasca de Administración Pública / Herri-Arduralaritzarako Euskal Aldizkaria ◽

10.47623/ivap-rvap.99.100.2014.094 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 2223-2246

Author(s):

Albert NOGUERA FERNÁNDEZ

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Political System ◽

Political Action ◽

The Political ◽

Political Pluralism ◽

Toma De Decisiones ◽

Subjective Element ◽

Democratic System ◽

The Government ◽

Negative Sense

LABURPENA: Aniztasun politikoa, Konstituzioaren 1.1. artikuluaren arabera, antolamendu juridiko espainiarreko balio nagusietako bat da, eta funtsezko baldintza sistema demokratiko guztientzat. Aniztasun politikoa gauzatu ahal izateko, bi elementu behar dira: bata subjektiboa (alderdi politikoen askatasuna), eta bestea objektiboa (gehiengodun ez diren alderdiek, hauteskundeen ostean, erabakiak hartzeko prozesuetan eragiteko aukera emango dien ekintza politikoa gauzatzen jarraitu ahal izatea kritika eta proposamen alternatiboak egiteko). Artikulu honek adierazten du, azken hamarkadetan sistema politikoan eta ekonomikoan egindako berregituratzeen ondorioz, aniztasun politikoa bermatzeko beharrezko diren bi elementu klasiko horiek murrizten ari direla, eta horrek eragin negatiboa izan dezakeela aniztasun politikoaren balioan. RESUMEN: El pluralismo político constituye, de acuerdo con el artículo 1.1 de la Constitución, uno de los valores superiores del ordenamiento jurídico español y condición fundamental para todo sistema democrático. La realización del pluralismo político requiere de dos elementos: un elemento subjetivo (la libertad de partidos políticos) y un elemento objetivo (la capacidad de los distintos partidos no mayoritarios de continuar desarrollando, después de las elecciones, una acción política de crítica y propuesta de alternativas que les permita influir en la toma de decisiones). Este artículo analiza cómo, fruto de la reestructuración del sistema político y económicos llevada a cabo en las últimas décadas, estos dos elementos clásicos necesarios para la garantía del pluralismo político podrían estar sufriendo una limitación que afectaría, en sentido negativo, al propio valor pluralismo político. ABSTRACT: Political pluralism is, in accordance with Article 1.1 of the Constitution, one of the highest values of the Spanish legal system and fundamental to any democratic system. The realization of political pluralism requires two elements: a subjective element (the freedom of political parties) and an objective element (the possibility of the various non-majority parties to continue developing, after the elections, a political action review and proposal alternatives allowing them to influence in the government decisions). This article analyzes how as result of the restructuring of the economic and political system held in recent decades, these two classic elements needed to guarantee political pluralism could be suffering a limitation that affect, in a negative sense, the political pluralism own value.

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Cry Wolf!

10.4018/978-1-7998-7987-9.ch019 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 255-273

Author(s):

Lucía Sapiña ◽

Íngrid Lafita ◽

Martí Domínguez

Keyword(s):

The Elderly ◽

Focus Of Attention ◽

The Political ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Health Crisis ◽

The Public ◽

Public Health Crisis ◽

The World ◽

Political Management ◽

The Government

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged societies all around the world since the beginning of 2020. A state of alert was declared in Spain from March to June. The country came to a complete standstill, until restrictions gradually began to be eased. This study examines how the first wave of the pandemic was reflected by analysing 1,007 cartoons published in various Spanish newspapers between January and June. The results show that criticism of the political management of the public health crisis was the most extensively featured issue. Protection measures against the coronavirus, such as lockdown, hand hygiene, and social distancing were also important issues. Although the cartoonists at first minimised the risk, as soon as the state of alert was declared, the often contradictory measures and strained relations of the government and the opposition parties were the main focus of attention for cartoonists. The present analysis also shows that despite being the main victims of COVID-19, neither the elderly nor healthcare professionals are the most commonly depicted actors in the sample.

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The Impact of Uncertainty Money Growth on the Economic Growth of South Asian Countries during 2004-2016

Kateb Quarterly Scientific Research journal ◽

10.32592/kqsrj.2019.6.13.2 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 29-42

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Political Culture ◽

Political Action ◽

The Political ◽

Government Officials ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Impact

Political culture, as a part of public culture and a group of beliefs, virtues, norms and approaches with views to the political area, is one of the basic issues which has been paid attention and the subject of many researches, especially since the second half of the 20th century. The topic of this article is studying Afghanistan political culture as well as answering the question of which impacts it has had on Afghanistan political participation during the after-2001 years. Also, in this research, by using an analytic-descriptive method, at first, the definition of political culture and its features in Afghanistan are presented and then, the occurred changes in the indexes of Afghanistan political coopetation in the recent decades are studied too. Political culture, as the system of empirical beliefs, symbols, virtues and the norms, which are regarded as the foundation of political action and the political behaviours of the public people, parties and the government officials is one of the basic issues which has been considered and studied by many experts of politucal area for the recent era. The continuity and strength of any any kinds of cooperations depends on the society political culture origin as it is a very important factor for defining the political social identity of the public members and determining their views, virtues and norms toward politics and authority. Moreover, in this study, at first,the level of changes in the last-two-decade political culture of Afghanistan society is discussed and then its impact on political participation is analysed through explaining the tie between beliefs and behaviours as well as a case study over the political cooperarion increase.

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Não somos selvagens: cultura política dos índios no Ceará (1799-1822) (We are not wild: Indian’s political culture in Ceará (1799-1822))

Cadernos de História ◽

10.5752/p.2237-8871.2016v17n26p83 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (26) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

João Paulo Peixoto Costa

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Political Action ◽

Social Space ◽

White Men ◽

The Political ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

The Social ◽

The Government

O espaço social imaginado para os índios na América portuguesa, entre meados do século XVIII e início do XIX, os colocava em uma ambiguidade. Mesmo estando em situação de equidade com os brancos enquanto vassalos régios, eram caracterizados como ainda sujeitos a uma espécie de “menoridade moral”. Entre a construção da imagem dessa população associada à barbárie e a ação política dessas comunidades em suas povoações, chama atenção a procura constante dos índios em identificar-se enquanto súditos do rei e merecedores dos direitos que lhes eram garantidos e que bem conheciam. Diante desses conflitos, o objetivo é contrastar a imagem de “entregues à natureza” construída pelos governadores com a cultura política dos índios vilados no Ceará, omitida dos registros do governo, apesar de sua presença latente. AbstractThe social space imagined for the Indians in Portuguese America, between the mid-eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, put them in an ambiguity. Even though they are in a situation of equality with the white men known as vassals, were characterized as still subject to a kind of "moral minority". Between the construction of the image associated with this barbarism and the political action of these communities in their towns’ population, it points out the constant pursuit of the Indians in order to identify themselves as subjects of the king and deserving of rights that were guaranteed and that they knew well. Given these conflicts, the goal is to contrast the image of “delivered to nature” which is built by the governors with the political culture of Indians in Ceará, that are omitted from the records of the government, despite its latent presence.Keywords: Indians. Political culture. Ceará.

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