Vol. 46 No. especial 1 mar (2022): Two years into a pandemic: health challenges of the 21st century

The editorial ‘There is still a pandemic, but there is hope’, by Ana Maria Costa, Arthur Chioro, Josué Laguardia and Regina Fernandes Flauzino, opens the journal:

“Two Years have passed since the beginning of the pandemic and after a year of vaccination of segments of the population, the global situation of COVID-19 still shows no concrete prospects that this disease will be controlled shortly. The expectation that vaccination would change the courses of the infection was confronted with the emergence of a new variant, with vaccine hesitancy in richer countries due to denialism and nationalism of vaccines, and with unequal access to immunizations in poorer countries. […] The challenges for the Brazilian health system are complex, for which five structuring guidelines are presented here, such as objective-images, as a contribution to the national debate on the future of health and the SUS in our country:

1. Health is the right to live well
2. Investing in health is essential to national sovereignty and economic development
3. The SUS is indispensable to care for people and promote citizenship
4. It is necessary to ensure adequate funding for the SUS
5. Health is democracy, and there is no health without the facing of inequities and social justice”.

Topics covered: managing the SUS at the municipal level in the face of COVID-19; Legislative and Executive branches in the COVID-19 pandemic; decisions of the Federal Supreme Court at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic; state governments in the fight against COVID-19; conceptions of Brazilian adults and elderly people about the COVID-19 pandemic; work process of journalists during the Covid-19 pandemic; public health in facing the infodemic and fake news; Health Surveillance within the scope of Primary Care to face the COVID-19 pandemic; Family Health Strategy at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic; Integrative and Complementary Practices offered by nursing in Primary Health Care; patient perspective on health care in the context of COVID-19; adherence to social isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic among teachers; health / mental health in the production of care in the COVID-19 pandemic; repercussions of COVID-19 on the mental health of higher education students; biosafety standards for COVID-19 among oral health professionals; Long-Term Reversible Contraception (LARC) in the pandemic; vaccine against COVID-19: arena of the Brazilian federative dispute; social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Federal State crisis; fictionalization in the midst of COVID-19; coronavirus pandemic and women: effects on working conditions and health; vaccine hesitancy and refusal in countries with universal health systems; inequalities in hospital supply in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil; COVID-19 in the light of social markers of difference: race, gender, and social class; Open Science: literature review of scientific communication on COVID-19 on the SciELO platform; Community Health Agents in the COVID-19 pandemic; factors associated with burnout in healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic; continuing education experience in times of COVID-19; Information and Communication Network on Workers’ Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil.