Emergency and permanence of the Zika virus epidemic

An Agenda Connecting Research and Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID5169033
AuthorsMartha Cristina Nunes Moreira (0000-0002-7199-3797, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Monique Nascimento (0000-0002-3363-4232, Instituto Nacional de Saúde), Marcos Nascimento (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Corina Helena Figueira Mendes (0000-0002-2344-3328, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Márcia Pinto (0000-0001-7568-5014, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Sandra Valongueiro Alves (0000-0001-8532-5346, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Sandra Valongueiro (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Maria Elizabeth Lopes Moreira (0000-0002-2034-0294, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Tereza Maciel Lyra (0000-0002-3600-7250, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Hilda Kuper (0000-0002-8952-0023, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Hannah Kuper
Year2018
Volume34
Issue8
Pagese00075718-e00075718
Publication date2018-08-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311x00075718
PMID30133655
OpenAlexW2887801232
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2018000800301
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited9

Recently, the Zika virus epidemic has caused a setting of health emergency in Brazil. This event has mobilized several stakeholders to look at this reality -where women, men and children born with the marks of these diagnoses are differently affected -as one with vectors, illnesses and obscure diagnosis situations. Recalling this recent memory means summoning the political realms to demand the commitment to the health of the population in contexts of health emergencies and their repercussions in the daily life

Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Virus · Zika virus · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Public Administration · Virology

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