By Conceição Lemis
At this moment, there is a topic surrounding Brazilian public health, which is wearing a new and modern guise.
The concept of One Health is contested, One Healthin its English abbreviation.
It has nothing to do with our unified health system – SUS.
“One Health “It is a renewal of an outdated model of seeing and acting on public health,” warns public health physician Lea Giraldo, a retired senior researcher at Fiocruz. Interview on the website of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEPES) Which we republish.
“One Health“, or Saúde Única, is an attempt to reintroduce, in a vertical way, the biomedicine model that favors corporate interests – especially those linked to agribusiness, the pharmaceutical industry and international philanthropy,” deplores Lea.
“The concept of One Health represents a resumption of proposals from the years 1970-1989,” says epidemiologist and professor Heleno Correa Filho, from the advisory board of SEBIS, in this regard. interview To Clara Fagundes.
“This happens in part because the sectors that recently ‘discovered’ so-called ‘One Health’ were oblivious to that political and conceptual development that has taken place over the past 50 years,” warns Professor Heleno.
He adds: “Multilateral organizations and private sectors support the One Health initiative because the model avoids conflicts and does not interfere with agribusiness or capitalism that makes the population sick.”
the The full text of Professor Heleno’s interview is here.
Accordingly, the Communications Department of Cebis has produced this series of seven cards, which explain in a very educational way what Saúde Única actually means, or One Health. A work by Joanna Trotta, a CEPIS grantee, supervised by journalist Clara Fagundes.
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