Healthcare and development: a dialog with the thinking of Celso Furtado

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

Costa, Laís Silveira¹  Bahia, Ligia¹  Braga, Patrícia Seixas da Costa² 

[1] Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

关键词: Development;    Collective health;    Brazilian Single Health System;    Innovation;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-81232017227.02682017

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva

【 摘 要 】

Understanding that conditions of health are dependent on more general nationwide factors relating to the level of development means admitting that ‘sectorization’ of health service is something that tends to limit the formation of knowledge. It also points to the importance of investigating the relationship between health and development, including issues about the processes that feed the persistence of the polarization between modernization and exclusion which has been a history of Brazil’s contemporary development. This paper, based on a review of the literature, aims to look more deeply at the structural conditioning factors of the relationship between health and development, and their reproduction in the formation of contemporary knowledge, based on a dialog with the ideas of Celso Furtado. It concludes that a ‘virtuous’ articulation between health and development calls for policies that are able to reconcile the antagonistic factors represented by the interests of capitalism, and the interests of social wellbeing, in a harmonious co-existence. In Furtado’s conception, this would be possible, if the process of social homogenization is correlated with an efficient production system that has a degree of technological autonomy.

【 授权许可】

CC BY