BRAZIL AND THE WORLD

SUS 20 Years: The Health of Brazil

SUS 20 Years: The Health of Brazil

SUS 20 Anos - A Saúde do Brasil

SUS 20 Years: The Health of Brazil

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Brazil and the World

Aurélio: – Aristotle, it is time to present the Millennium Goals to this group.

The General Assembly of United Nations, in the year 2000, uniting 191 countries in the Millennium Dome, committed itself to fulfill the following Millennium Goals until 2015:

• Eradicate the extreme poverty and hunger. Reduce the proportion of population with income less than one dollar and suffers hunger by half. In Brazil, the accumulated fall of the population in extreme poverty was 58.5% between 1992 and 2006 and 11% reduction between 2005 and 2006.
• Achieve the universal basic learning. Guarantee that all children conclude one complete cycle of basic learning. In Brazil, in 2005, 92.5% of the children and youths between 7 and 17 years were registered in elementary school. In 2008, the Health Program in Schools was released.
• Promote equality among genders and the independence of women. Eliminate the inequality between the genders in all educational levels. In 2005, Brazil registered that in the total number of people over 12 years of studies, 56.1 were women.
• Reduce infant mortality. Reduce in two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the death of children less than 5 years old. In Brazil, there was a 60% reduction since 1990: from 53.7 deaths per thousand live births to 21.2 deaths per thousand live births in 2008.
• Improve maternal health. Reduce in three fourths the maternal and neonatal death rates. In Brazil, in 2004, the National Pact of Maternal and Neonatal Reduction was released. The neonatal mortality since 2005 has decreased by 14.1%.
• Fight HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases. Detain the propagation of HIV/Aids and the incidence of malaria and other important diseases and invert the current tendency. There was an important reduction of the incidence and death by Aids and an improvement of the quality of life of those living with HIV in Brazil. Malaria had a reduction of 34.8% between January and May 2008 in the states of Legal Amazonia. Hansenosis and tuberculosis has also been reducing in the country.
• Guarantee the Environmental Sustainability . Integrate the principles of sustainable development and revert the loss of environmental resources. From 2004 to 2006, Brasil reduced the rate of CO2 gas emission, which represented 15% of the goal of the developed countries, for the period of 2008 to 2012 in the Kyoto Protocol.
• Establish world partnership towards development. Establish world partnership towards development. Brazil has cooperation actions with other countries of Latin America, Caribbean and Africa and proposes the World Fund Against Hunger and Poverty.

 

Davi: – The teacher also said that health is not only the absence of diseases!

Suzy: – I think it is time to talk about everything that affects and even determines health. How is it called?