Albino Filho MA, Silva DJ. The COVID-19 pandemic and adoption of principles of community in the Brazilian National Health System. Interface (Botucatu). 2025; 29: e240476. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.240476
Abstract
Drawing on the contributions of Esposito, this article discusses the need from the point of view of instituting power to incorporate principles of community into the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) to maintain collective life in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Instituting thought” in this sense is thinking that recognizes the decisive role of power. Through this type of thinking it is therefore possible to think of principles of community to foster health practices that, building on individual freedom, promote the common good, as the ethos of solidary existence, which, based on individual and collective health needs, imprints an ideology by which collective life and differences are conditions of existence for all “significant lives”.
Keywords
Political power; Brazilian National Health System; Life; Community integration
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