November 2018
Fabiana Pinto Fernandes, graduate student in Collective Health at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro was selected to attend the global conference on primary health care in Astana with the youth delegation.
On 25-26 October 2018, the world came together in Astana, Kazakhstan, in the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of Alma-Ata, to renew its commitment to primary health care and universal health coverage in a conference co-hosted by Government of Kazakhstan, the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 emerged as a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health, identifying primary health care as the key to achieve universal health coverage.
As a result of the 2018 meeting, a Working Group composed of researchers from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation* and National Health Council (CNS)** produced a document with some propositions to achieve a better quality primary care.
This document also presents some reflections on three decades of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and the current threats of fiscal adjustment programs.
See the full paper: Primary Health Care and Universal Health Systems: inseparable commitment and fundamental human right – Brazilian Contribution (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and National Health Council) to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, Astana, October 2018.
*Members of the Fiocruz Working Group on PHC: Paulo Buss, Ligia Giovanella, Maria Helena Magalhães de Mendonça, Luiz Augusto Galvão, Arlinda B. Moreno, Carlos A Grabois Gadelha, Cláudia Travassos, Francisco Campos, Guilherme Franco Netto, Gustavo Corrêa Matta, , Marcos Cueto, Maria do Carmo Leal, Mariana Setúbal Nassar, Marília Santini, Nisia Trindade, Patricia Canto, Patty Fidelis de Almeida, Paulo Amarante, Roberta Gondim, Sérgio Rego, Sonia Fleury.
**Members of the Technical Chamber of Basic Care of the National Health Council (CNS): Ronald Ferreira dos Santos (CNS president), Agleildes Arichele Leal de Queirós, Allan Nuno Sousa, Ana Maria Chiesa, Ana Paula de Lima, Aparecida Celina Alves de Oliveira, Aryel Thomaz Fontenelle de Melo, Bruno Abreu Gomes, Elizabethe Cristina Fagundes de Souza, Heliana Hemetério, José Orlei Santor, José Vanilson, Kátia de Cássia Botasso, Luzianne Feijó Alexandre Paiva Guimarães, Maria Conceição Silva, Mariana Lima Nogueira, Reginaldo Alves das Chagas, Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca, Shirley Marshal Dias Morales, Shirley Santina Gonçalves, Stephan Sperling, Tulio Batista.
Related links:
Declaration of Alma-Ata from 1978
Read in Manguinhos:
Um olhar jovem sobre a Conferência de Astana – Fabiana Pinto Fernandes, integrante da delegação de jovens da sociedade civil que foi à Conferência Global de Cuidados Primários em Saúde realizada em Astana, Cazaquistão, em 25 e 26 de outubro de 2018, faz um retrato do evento e discute a declaração que sucede a de Alma Ata, de 1978, que garantiu o direito universal à saúde
“Health is everyone’s right” – José Paranaguá discusses the creation of SUS and the challenges to maintain an universal health policy in a country the size of a continent.
For an universal health system – In this interview, Carlos Paiva analyzes the difficulties of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).
The right to health – The blog of HCS-Manguinhos interviewed two Brazilian experts on Public Health.
Health reform and the creation of the Sistema Único de Saúde: notes on contexts and authors
Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assunção; Teixeira, Luiz Antonio
Political challenges facing the consolidation of the Sistema Único de Saúde: a historical approach
Rodrigues, Paulo Henrique de Almeida
Full issue about SUS (vol. 21, n.1, jan.-mar. 2014).
