A voz da comunidade no enfrentamento da Covid-19: proposições para redução das iniquidades em saúde

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the role of community engagement, the actions of social movements and civil society to face health emergencies, specifically, the COVID-19 pandemic. The guiding questions that guided the construction of this article are: what is the role of engagement in coping with COVID-19? What can community engagement offer in the face of global health emergency events? What is the importance of promoting such movements in the face of a pandemic? What actions were developed by civil society? Methodologically, it is a theoretical essay built from the articulation of ideas dispersed in the scientific literature and technical-operational documents on the engagement and action of social movements and the health crisis resulting from COVID-19. It appears that community governance subsidized by the strengthening of communication channels fostered by institutions and social influencers can contribute to the expansion of the engagement of collectives organized as rhetoric and ethical-political practice committed to citizenship. In Brazil, it is observed that the necropolitical mechanism that operates as coping policies is opposed to the actions and response capacity of the populations, in this sense, the voice of the community through the actions of social movements and society has been mobilized to reduce inequities.