A relação entre as políticas públicas de saúde e o desenvolvimento econômico em Cascavel/PR - 1975/1979

Abstract

This paper is about public health politics installed in the state of Paraná, more specifically in Cascavel in the decade of 1970 and how it influences the economical plan. The complexion of the governmental speeches about health and the plans to velopment aspects related to the practices in the health sector and the way they interact in the economic and politic plan in an historical context. The consolidation of the health and sanitary organization came from a politic process that looked for answer the needs of that context. The construction of Itaipu dam made way for more people to arrive to the west of Paraná, promoting a big demo graphical development. This created the need of making the infrastructure related to health centers, hospitals, vacancies and health professionals compatible to this new populational reality, as this research shows. So an increasing care with population's health was noted. To promote people's good health the government used acknowledgments of the medicine such as immunization techniques, which were efficient in decreasing epidemics and high mortality. The historic-social approach of the health shows what treatments and diseases were prioritized by government, this allow the analysis of the health paradigms developed by government institutes in this period.