Health Policies Within the Poverty Agendas of the Lula Da Silva and Rousseff Administrations: The Influence of the World Bank.

The anti-poverty agenda has been at the heart of the World Bank's discourse in recent decades. Social policies started to be identified as strategic for combating poverty and promoting development in poor countries. We analyzed the health policy recommendations made by the World Bank to Brazil in the Lula da Silva and Rousseff administrations from 2003 to 2014.

Social health organizations: an analysis of the specialties and exams contracted by the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Social Health Organizations (SHOs) are private entities that receive resources from governments for the management of public healthcare services. With the history of market interest in public health and the high volume of resources transferred to SHOs, one must question if the market logic continues to be inserted in this management model. The understanding of the dynamics of providing healthcare services to the population in the different contracts may help to understand how possible changes in the contracted services may have an influence.

[Following the money: an analysis of financial transfers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to social health organizations].

This article analyzed the activity of Social Health Organizations (OSS) in the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) and the use of management contracts and contract addenda as instruments of privatization. The article aimed to understand the processes that legitimize privatization, based on quantification of the amounts transferred through management contracts and contract addenda to organizations that signed contracts with the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Health Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2009 to 2018. A descriptive, exploratory, mixed-methods study was developed to analyze the amounts transferred to the OSS.

Reinventing Privatization: A Political Economic Analysis of the Social Health Organizations in Brazil.

The Brazilian state apparatus was reformed throughout the 1990s, influenced by New Public Management (NPM). NPM was embodied in the health care sector by the creation of Social Health Organizations ( or OSS), private non-profit entities to provide welfare services. We performed a systematic review of the literature outlining the origins and role of OSS in Brazil.

[Life after sexual reassignment surgery: significance for gender and transsexuality].

The Transsexualization Process is the main service directed to trans-specific health in Brazil, which provides services such as hormone therapy and sexual reassignment surgeries to the trans population. In this article, the significance surrounding the surgical procedure, the new genitalia, gender and transsexuality among women who underwent sexual reassignment surgery at the Cassiano Antônio de Moraes University Hospital (HUCAM), located in Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil, was analyzed. Qualitative research was carried out, narrative interviews were recorded, and thematic content analysis was performed.

The art of improvisation: the working process of administrators at a Federal University Hospital.

The scope of this article is to analyze the working process of administrators at a Federal University Hospital (HUF). It includes research with a qualitative approach conducted through interviews with twelve administrators. The work process, the work tools and the human activity per se are understood to be under scrutiny.

[Global agenda of the social movements].

The social global movements of health marked the decade of 90. The debate on Global Health is a constituent part of this article aiming at understand the new social struggles in the field of public health. The training of social movements that act as a whole provide a critical review on public health through the articulation and organisation of global causes brought by activists of the field of health.