State, development and health as landmarks of the future

Abstract

The 2020 decade will go down in history due to the worldwide commotion caused by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The latent threat to human life and the notable restrictions on sociability caused by the medical-sanitary inability to contain viral spread on a global scale will be highlighted. This context, however, also made it possible to re-discuss the structural conditions under which humanity has lived until the pandemic outbreak. This paper assumes that this is an exercise that only makes sense if it can contribute to collective conduct that bears the future. It then particularizes the case of Brazil, debating to what extent it is possible to resume the sense of (re) construction of the Nation by meeting the needs basic social issues. To understand the limits to the perpetuation of the efforts underlying the State's emergency action during the current health crisis, the essay restores some situational aspects, revisiting the structural conditions that define underdevelopment. It is suggested that the forthcoming development strategies must assume as premises a concrete involvement of the citizenship and a wider scope of social arrangements in the country. The document also investigates how previous reflections on the subject would have application in the field of Health. To do so, it is used the idea of ​​an economic-industrial complex as a proving ground capable of forwarding not only emergent solutions but, above all, strategic and structural solutions to overcome the intrinsic contradictions experienced by Brazilian Society.