Abstract

CARREIRO, Gamaliel S.  and  DA SILVA CARREIRO, Paula Katiana. Non-Predicted Effects of a Public Policy: The Mais Médicos Program and its impact in the field of Brazilian medicine. Trab. soc. [online]. 2024, vol.25, n.42, pp.133-158.  Epub Jan 01, 2024. ISSN 1514-6871.

Studies from the mid-1970s and 1980s already indicated some type of change in the medical job market with the opening of new medical courses in Brazil. However, it was after the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution that the phenomenon gained strength. In it, the right to health rises to the category of fundamental right and a duty of the State. In the following decades, several public policies and government programs were created that aimed to implement this right. The Mais Médicos Program, under the Dilma Rousseff administration, appears as an important instrument guaranteeing this right. In it, the expansion of the number of medical courses constitutes one of the central axes. This article analyzes some of the unforeseen effects of this public policy that has been reorganizing the medical job market in Brazil. It is discussed who were the biggest beneficiaries of this government action. We also propose to understand the changes in this market within the broader context of the transformations of capitalism.

Keywords : public policy; sociology; medical work.

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