The Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on Brazil’s Response to the Covid-19 Epidemic Could Be Doing Significant Harm to the Federal Government Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions (Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito, CPI) in Brazil are investigations led by the Legislative branch of government in the federal level. When established, these retain equivalent powers of…

Recent moves in the public security agenda could be leading the country into democratic chaos in 2022. — The fact that Brazil represents today the biggest sanitary threat to the entire international community due to the evident mismanagement of the COVID-19 epidemic within its own borders overshadows other nefarious facts and trends of the current Jair Bolsonaro administration. On top of persistent economic recession and unemployment, increasing political…

What the country’s positive track record in this public health field could mean for the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign — Vaccines have been around since the late 18th century and, throughout time, the efficacy of this public health tool was scientifically certified for preventing a variety of infectious diseases, for generating collective immunity in entire societies, for reducing child mortality rates globally, and thus, for enabling unprecedented longevity to humankind…

One of the country’s longstanding negative sociocultural traits could be hindering its ability to recover from the pandemic In early January 2021, Brazil ranks second in global deaths caused by COVID-19 (196 thousand) and third in terms of confirmed infections by the Sars-CoV-2 virus (7.7 million) among all countries. This…

Why Brazil’s Minister of the Economy intends to extinguish one-fourth of the country’s municipalities — Brazil is currently divided into 26 states plus a Federal District, Brasília, the capital. In its turn, these states are divided into a total of 5,570 municipalities, which require adequate infrastructure, a permanent influx of public resources, and a set of local civil servants to function according to any city’s…

Why is this publicly-led financial innovation so disruptive for Brazil’s economic environment? The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging and unconventional periods of time in several decades for virtually every country in the world. Yet, on its turn, Brazil will be adding an…

As this nationwide public program reaches 30 years of existence, this is a brief mapping of its strengths, weaknesses, and challenges ahead Brazil’s health expenditure composition is somewhat unique in the world. It is formed by: 1) 43% of government-run, compulsory, publicly funded arrangements, on which around 75% of the…

Countries’ varying health expenditure arrangements look more like a colorful mosaic Any system is “complex” by definition. Otherwise it wouldn’t be considered a system in the first place. For historical, cultural, civilizational, political, social e economic reasons, countries’ health systems around the world can differ from one another depending on…

A correlação entre exposição midiática e fama alavancada e a propulsão de carreiras de celebridades na política eleitoral brasileira Eleições democráticas diretas previstas em constituições republicanas nada mais são do que competições para aferição do nível de popularidade dos candidatos envolvidos no pleito que se propõem a competir pelos votos…