COVID-19 and Gaza: The Ideal Time to Establish a Medical Reserve Corps of Public Health Preventive Medicine Specialists

Throughout history, knowledge and practices on the health of populations have had different names: medical police, public health, social medicine, community health, and preventive medicine. To what extent is the Brazilian collective health, established in the 1970s, identified with and differentiated from these diverse movements that preceded it? The analysis of the socio-genesis of a social field allows us to identify the historical conditions that made possible both theoretical formulations and the achievement of technical and social practices. Collective health, a product of transformations within the medical field, constituted a rupture in relation to preventive medicine and public health and hygiene, being part of a social medicine movement in Latin America that, in turn, had identification with European social medicine in the 19th century. Focused on the development of a social theory of health that would support the process of sanitary reform, collective health has been built as a space involving several fields: scientific, bureaucratic, and political. Thus, it brought together health professionals and social scientists from universities, health care services, and social movements. Its scientific subfield has developed, and the sanitary reform project has had several successes related to the organization of a unified health system, which has ensured universal coverage for the population in Brazil. It has incorporated into and dialogued with several reformist movements in international public health, such as health promotion and the pursuit of health equity. Its small relative autonomy stems from subordination to other dominant fields and its dependence on the state and governments. However, its consolidation corresponded to the strengthening of a pole focused on the collective and universal interest, where health is not understood as a commodity, but as a right of citizenship.

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Assessing Integration of Clinical and Public Health Skills in Preventive Medicine Residencies: Using Competency Mapping

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.2012.300753 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 102 (S3) ◽

pp. S357-S367 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Eden V. Wells ◽

Amy N. Sarigiannis ◽

Matthew L. Boulton

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Preventive Medicine

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Imperfect Models: The Kingston Lunatic Asylum Scandal and the Problem of Postemancipation Imperialism

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1017/jbr.2016.70 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 709-727 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christienna D. Fryar

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Policy ◽

Public Health Policy ◽

Lunatic Asylum ◽

Moral Management ◽

Colonial Institutions ◽

Imperial Governance ◽

The Ideal

AbstractThis article examines an imperial scandal concerning the treatment of patients in the lunatic asylum of Kingston, Jamaica, that highlighted the inadequacies of the imperial government. A significant moment in the development of colonial public health policy, this scandal also spoke to broader questions of postemancipation imperial governance. At the heart of the scandal was a debate about whether standards of treatment developed in Britain—symbolized by the image of the ideal asylum and the ideology of moral management—could and should be implemented in colonies. This debate was all the more fraught because the designation of moral management as the official protocol was recent, its implementation incomplete, and its underlying ideas contested. Nevertheless, despite the instability of these ideas, during the scandal and its aftermath, actors treated them as a monolithic package of standards before making them the definitive model for all colonial institutions. Indeed, the scandal helped further bolster moral management in Britain.

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