Vol. 45 No. 129 abr-jun (2021): Saúde em Debate

“While these lines are being written, Brazil has reached 18 million cases of Covid-19 and has just broken the barrier of 500,000 deaths from the disease. The President of the Republic makes jokes, encourages crowds, discourages vaccination. The year 2020 ended with the country back on the United Nations’ Hunger Map: 60% of Brazilian households in a situation of food insecurity, 15% in a situation of severe food insecurity – hunger itself1. June 2021, almost 15 million unemployed, of which about 3.5 million for more than two years” – opening of the Editorial of the new issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’ signed by José Carvalho de Noronha and Lucia Souto, director and president of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes).

Volume 45, number 129 presents articles on: Regional Intermanagers Commission as a governance mechanism for health policy in Ceará; reflection on the discourse of well-being and development in neoliberalism: the case of the Colombian health system; actors of care regulation in the SUS; performance of SUS health services in Pernambuco; Participatory management in the Family Health Strategy (Paideia Method); coordination of care at the Consultório na Rua (Street Clinic) in the city of Rio de Janeiro; Mother of Paraná Network; National Policy for the Comprehensive Health of the Black Population; Development and validation of an instrument to measure Self-Perception of Health in adults; spending on compulsory hospitalizations for drug use in Espírito Santo; barriers to access for Men who have Sex with Men to HIV testing and treatment in Curitiba; satisfaction and access to oral health for people living with HIV/AIDS in northeastern Brazil; aesthetic and bodily practices: creation and production of subjectivity in psychosocial care; List of Work-Related Illnesses; Afro-Brazilian art as identity strengthening among medical students; health needs: concepts, implications, and challenges for the SUS; Parliamentary Amendments on health in the context of the Federal budget; scientific production on Intermediate Care and Community Hospitals; instruments most used in the assessment of exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences; Primary Health Care practices in the field of ​​drugs; scientific production on community pharmaceutical services in coping with the coronavirus pandemic; book review ‘Tobacco control policy in Brazil’ by Leonardo Henriques Portes.