Abstract

SLOMP JUNIOR, Helvo et al. Doing, planning, “planning-doing:” a case of municipal pragmatism in collaboration with a university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Salud colect. [online]. 2021, vol.17, e3341.  Epub May 28, 2021. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3341.

This article critically analyzes local governments’ abilities to face the COVID-19 pandemic by examining an instance of technical-scientific cooperation between a municipality and a university located in the northern Rio de Janeiro (state) beginning in April 2020. This collaboration included: the implementation of a situation room, data processing and analysis for decision making and for public communication, a telemonitoring center, ongoing training with territorial healthcare teams, and an epidemiological study of COVID-19 in the municipality, among other actions. We situate our analysis within a conceptual framework that adopts a micropolitical view of concepts such as experience, pragmatism, “live work in action,” and desire. The notion of “planning-doing” is deployed as an inventive form of planning that is only narrated a posteriori, as an imperative act, a live government in action that depends on the movement of desire oriented by life, and that only takes place in collective spaces of management practices and health care.

Keywords : Health Planning; COVID-19; City Government; Integral Healthcare Practice; Community-Based Participatory Research; Brazil.

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