The article’s author, Michely de Lima Ferreira Vargas,\u00a0Research\u00a0at Escola de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica do Estado de Minas Gerais<\/a> explores the social role and transformations of the family over time. The article also includes approaches related to family, gender, social class, and other contemporary issues.<\/p>\n Vargas, Michely de Lima Ferreira.\u00a0The social sciences and humanities on family and kinship: contributions to the Family Health Strategy<\/a>. Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade-Manguinhos [online]. 2021, v. 28, n. 2.<\/p><\/div>\n The article\u00a0features a specific analysis related to Brazil and the patriarchal family Following health reform in the 80\u2019s, Brazil has been expanding access to healthcare through the Unified Health System (SUS\u2014Sistema \u00danico de Sa\u00fade). At the heart of SUS, is the Family Health Strategy (FHS) (Estrat\u00e9gia Sa\u00fade da Fam\u00edlia in Portuguese), which is the main primary healthcare model in the country. It emphasizes health care in community health facilities and at home to a defined local population.<\/p>\n See the full article:<\/p>\n Vargas, Michely de Lima Ferreira. Aportes das ci\u00eancias sociais e humanas sobre fam\u00edlia e parentesco: contribui\u00e7\u00f5es para a Estrat\u00e9gia Sa\u00fade da Fam\u00edlia<\/a>. Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade-Manguinhos [online]. 2021, v. 28, n. 2.<\/p>\n Read more about the Brazilian Unified System (SUS) in HCS-MAnguinhos:<\/p>\n 30 years of SUS in our pages<\/a>\u00a0Thirty years ago, on September 19, 1990, Law 8,080 was enacted, creating the Unified Health System (SUS). To celebrate this remarkable moment, we highlight some articles and texts already published in our journal and blog about SUS, which is playing a decisive role in this pandemic context.<\/p>\n Health reform and the creation of the Sistema \u00danico de Sa\u00fade: notes on contexts and authors<\/a><\/strong>, by Historians Carlos Henrique Assun\u00e7\u00e3o\u00a0Paiva and Luiz Antonio\u00a0Teixeira, from\u00a0Casa de Oswaldo Cruz<\/em>\/FIOCRUZ,\u00a0explains how within the context of the return to democracy, the new constitution enacted in 1988 transformed health into an individual right and initiated the process of creating a public, universal and decentralized health system, profoundly altering the organization of public health in Brazil.<\/p>\n The right to health<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0In 2016 we interviewed two\u00a0experts on\u00a0this\u00a0subject, Jos\u00e9 Paranagu\u00e1 and Carlos Henrique Paiva.<\/p>\n \u201cHealth is everyone\u2019s right<\/a><\/strong>\u201d \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Paranagu\u00e1 is a reference in Brazil and Latin America in terms of community health, international health and bioethics. He\u00a0is a doctor and has a PhD in health sciences. \u00a0Among his many awards, he received the Oswaldo Cruz Medal of Merit in 2009 from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n For an universal health system<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Carlos Henrique \u00a0Paiva is Assistant Professor of the Graduate Program in The History of Science and Health at the Casa deOswaldo Cruz. Carlos Henrique Paiva has published several articles and books about the history of public health in Brazil, health reform and the Brazilian National Health Service (SUS).<\/p>\n Political challenges facing the consolidation of the Sistema \u00danico de Sa\u00fade: a historical approach<\/a><\/strong>, by Paulo Henrique de Almeida Rodrigues Professor, Instituto de Medicina Social\/ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro\u00a0investigates the circumstances in which Brazil\u2019s sanitation reform was conceived and the Sistema \u00danico de Sa\u00fade (SUS) was constructed.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Families.png\")
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