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COVID-19 AS A GLOBAL DISASTER: Challenges to risk governance and social vulnerability in Brazil

2020; Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade (ANPPAS); Volume: 23; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200115vu2020l3id

ISSN

1983-0211

Autores

Carlos Machado de Freitas, Isadora Vida de Mefano e Silva, Natália da Cunha Cidade,

Tópico(s)

Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Resumo

Abstract On March 11 2020, the Director of the World Health Organization characterized the Public Health Emergency by COVID-19 as a pandemic (PAHO, 2020). In this article we understand this pandemic as a Global Disaster that can evolve into a Complex Emergency presenting risks for a Humanitarian Crisis in many countries, including Brazil. In this context we face two challenges: the governance of risks and coping and reducing vulnerabilities. In Brazil political, social and economic threats overlap with the dangers caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus. These threats undermine the capacity for risk governance and widen and intensify social inequalities, making Brazil the new epicenter of the global disaster by COVID-19.

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