Vol. 45 No. 130 jul-set (2021): Saúde em Debate

‘Hunger, unemployment, corruption, and preventable deaths: faces of necropolitics’, title of the Editorial that presents this new issue of Saúde em Debate. Signed by the scientific editors of the journal, Ana Maria Costa, Maria Lucia Frizon Rizzotto and Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, it points out the hardships that the Brazilian people suffer “from the adoption of economic policies practiced by the government, which submits to the interests of the market and the capital to the detriment of the population’s needs and demands”.

Topics addressed: Brazilian Sanitary Reform; Intersectoral Chamber of Food and Nutrition Security; precariousness of work: Social Organizations in Primary Care in the city of Rio; work of professionals in a university hospital; social networks and teams in a Primary Health Care unit in the city of Rio de Janeiro; lifestyles: the experience of an educational community in Colombia; Expanded Family Health Centers: analysis according to the cycles of the Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care; nurses’ performance in different models of Primary Health Care in Brazil; family history of breast cancer in women in Uberaba (MG); proportional mortality in indigenous peoples in Brazil; health technologies incorporated in the SUS; medical students and their academic career; perspectives of Brazilians during the COVID-19 pandemic: self-care and environmental bioethics; Primary Health Care in the SUS network to combat COVID-19; the voice of the community in the face of COVID-19: propositions to reduce health inequities; COVID-19: primary care in Guatemala; conjuncture analysis in health: conceptual, methodological and technical aspects; judicialization of health: the theses of the Supreme Court; diagnostic error subsidizes reform package that undermines the Family Health Strategy; National Policy for Integral Attention to Women’s Health; disability: words, models, and exclusion; exhibition ‘Zika Lives that Affect’; characteristics of health professionals affected by COVID-19; mental health and COVID-19; reuse regulation policies and implications for public health; evaluation of postpartum care programs in Brazil.