Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DEISE SANTOS SALDANHA

THE GLOBAL/LOCAL RELATIONS OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC AND ITS IMPACTS ON HEALTH SERVICE STRUCTURES IN CAICO-RN

Covid-19; Health Service; Caicó/RN

The coronavirus pandemic is, by nature, spatial, and because it is spatial it represents geographic features. The scale of the pandemic itself has a geographic nature: it is worldwide and takes place in a context of globalization where human and commercial relations take place in a very fast and complex way. As the virus spread and took on a global scale, it opened up a series of other crises that had already been plaguing the world. This crisis is not just limited to a public health problem, it has accelerated other crises that were already underway in today's society, crises that are of a social, economic, environmental and political nature, consequently intensifying critical problems experienced by the Brazilian public health system over the years. In this way, many Brazilian cities needed to restructure or re-establish a new form of health service, which was adequate and consistent with the intensification of positive cases of Covid-19. The initial cases of Covid-19 were registered in the capitals and in large urban centers and, later, migrated to the interior of the states. It is at this moment that cities like Caicó-RN, are inserted in this context. With this, the general objective of the research is to analyze how the services structures of Caicó responded to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic as a global vector. It is necessary to investigate how the health network of Caicó is located, seeking to identify its needs, and how these have impacted on the care of this new virus.