Virtuous articulation between health-education in the fight against the pandemic: an analysis from the public health center of Lagarto/ Sergipe/ Brazil

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic showed to the world, and to underdeveloped countries in particular, how close are the links between health and development. In Brazil, the debate on this correlation has expanded with the struggle for health reform in the 1980s, for health as a universal right in the 1988 Constitution and for the construction of the SUS. However, the pandemic context made it clear that it is no longer possible to ignore the dangers of having an underfunded public health system, an extreme external dependence and the inexistence of a national development policy. On the other hand, it was in this context that the effects of the virtuous articulation of public investment in health and education can be seen, especially in peripheral regions. Thus, this article analyzes the experience of the public health center in Lagarto, in the state of Sergipe / Brazil, emphasizing its contribution to fighting the pandemic.