Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America

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This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries’ capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory’s conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven’t Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. < Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Equity, Globalization, and Health (Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar)....Pages 3-7 Global Response to Social and Health Inequities (Roberto Carlos Luján Villar, Ligia Malagón de Salazar)....Pages 9-37 Main Challenges to Reduce Health Inequities in Latin America (Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar)....Pages 39-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 REDLACPROMSA: Latin American and Caribbean Network of Health Promotion Managers (Rita M. Ferrelli)....Pages 71-89 Denaturalizing “Long-Lasting Endemic Diseases”: Social Mobilization in the Context of Arboviral Diseases in Brazil (Valcler Rangel Fernandes, Maurício Monken, Grácia Maria M. Gondin, Zélia M. Profeta da Luz, Ana Beatriz A. Slaibi Lopes, Márcia Correa e Castro et al.)....Pages 91-106 Health Promoting Schools: Implementation Challenges, Barriers, and Lessons from a Case Study (Rosana Magalhães, Livia Cardoso Gomes, Carmelinda Afonso, Roberto Eduardo Albino Brandão, Patricia Camacho Dias, Marlon Mattos)....Pages 107-116 Health in School Program: Practicing Intersectorality on a Territorial Basis for the Future of Health in All Policies (Rita Andrade, Myrian Mitzuko, Cristina Passeri, Claudia Segantini, Monica O. Simons)....Pages 117-135 Strategic Analysis of Health Care Practices for the Homeless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Elyne Montenegro Engstrom, Gisela Cardoso, Alda Lacerda, Mirna Barros Teixeira, Pilar Belmonte, Regina Bodstein)....Pages 137-160 Linking Public Health Surveillance System to Policymaking and Local Development (Ligia Malagón de Salazar)....Pages 161-176 Intersectorality and Local Development: Municipality La Cumbre (Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Bertha Luz Pineda Restrepo)....Pages 177-186 La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca. The Challenge of Implementing Sustainable Territorial Development Initiatives. Critical Factors and Consequences in the Reduction of Inequities in Health (Roberto Carlos Luján Villar)....Pages 187-203 Innovation in Small Farmers’ Economies (IECAM): Good Agricultural Practices of Healthy Agriculture with Associated Rural Enterprises in the Northern Cauca Area in Colombia (Myriam Sánchez-Mejía)....Pages 205-218 Research in the Strategy of Healthy Communities in Mexico: Learning for the Transformation of Practices Against Social Determinants of Health (Jorge Laureano Eugenio, Elisa Gil Hernández)....Pages 219-229 Territorial Management of Health Promotion: The Dengue Epidemic Case in Perú (Edwin Peñaherrera Sánchez)....Pages 231-245 Front Matter ....Pages 247-247 A Bet for the Reduction of Health Inequities in Accordance with the Conditions of the Latin American Region (Ligia Malagón de Salazar)....Pages 249-295 Back Matter ....Pages 297-306