Epidemiología y política de salud en las Américas: el desafío neoliberal

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the anti-health policies and programs that are being pursued by neoliberal governments on a global scale and that are being sold to the publicby labeling them as "health reforms". The role of epidemiologists in the situation is to strengthen opposition to this anti-health reforms by documenting their effects on preventive and therapeutic health services and on the health status of the population. Major difficulties in this regard are discussed. There is a great need for epidemiologists to move boldy forward to attack the major diseasses that afflict the Americans today. Two examples of high-priority programs are discussed: the achievemenst of safe water supplies by newly developed, low-cost community-based initiatives, and the long overdue organization of effective campaigns against cardiovascular dissease. The establishment of specific, concrete Health Objetives at all levels of government -national, state/provincial and local- must become the central focus of public health policy and action throughout the Americas. Epidemiologists are urged to take leadership in advocationg and achieving this fundamentally epidemiological approach.

• Autores: Terris, Milton
• Tipo de recurso: Review article
• Fecha de publicación: 1997
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/4680
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/4680
• Palabra clave: Política de salud; Salud pública; América; Epidemiología; Reforma sistemas de salud
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)