Risco, vigilância e segurança sanitária: desafios à proteção da saúde. / Risk, surveillance and sanitary safety: challenges to health protection.

AUTOR(ES)

Ana de Oliveira Barbosa

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The phrase sanitary safety has often been mentioned in international forums, especially as related to the emerging sanitary crises. The meaning attached to such a phrase has remained obscure, as it has usually been understood as a notion. This dissertation is aimed at analyzing the notion of sanitary safety brought into the Brazilian sanitary surveillance upon the creation of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). An exploratory case study was then undertaken by both analyzing technical and normative documents issued by Anvisa from 1999 to 2004 and carrying out semi-structured interviews with key informants who had taken part in the process of formulating the bodys institutional design. Contexts in which the phrase was used were identified in the data and the meanings associated to the phrase were grasped accordingly. The notion of sanitary safety was found in this study to move within the dyads risk-health benefit or risk-health protection, since it is presented as both an acceptable risk-benefit relationship from the perspective of individual and collective health protection and promotion and a State duty towards society aimed at health promotion. The extension of such a notion was shown to encompass human health-related products and services. Environmental issues, including the workplace and the natural environment, were also captured by the notion, although with little intensity. Although sanitary safety was found to focus on production and use of drugs and health-related technologies, especially those designed for medical diagnosis and treatment, data revealed that the scope of the notion has been widening.

ASSUNTO(S)

saude publica segurança sanitária health protection vigilância sanitária agência nacional de vigilância sanitária sanitary risk sanitary safety risco sanitário proteção da saúde sanitary surveillance

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