The intersectoriality as a technical and political strategy of the World Health Organization and the World Bank
Name: CASSIANE COMINOTI ABREU
Publication date: 27/11/2017
Advisor:
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| MARIA LUCIA TEIXEIRA GARCIA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| MARIA LUCIA TEIXEIRA GARCIA | Advisor * |
Summary: The objective of this thesis is to analyze the fundamentals of intersectoriality as a management strategy proposed by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, characterizing the intentionalities contained in the technical and political dimensions. To reach the goal, we conducted a qualitative research, involving documentary research from intersectoral and multisectoral keywords, from the texts available on the websites of these international agencies. The search occurred between 2015 and 2016. The method chosen as epistemological reference was the dialectical historical materialism. For data analysis we used the content analysis of the thematic type. The meaning of intersectionality for the World Health Organization and the World Bank is related to: performing actions, activities or joint efforts between various sectors; to a health strategy adopted at international health promotion conferences; as a synonym for multisectoral action among sectors and the joint work among professionals from different disciplines/professions to share knowledge or as a form of intervention, approach, actions, coordination between different sectors. The objectives for the use of intersectoriality/multi-sectorality by both Agencies are related to the resolution of social problems such as lack of health, education, epidemics and poor management of social policies. The promotion of intersectoral actions is related to the scope of social policies, especially for the poor and vulnerable, as a technical management tool capable of defragmenting social policies and solving social problems. Using the categories historicity, essence/appearance, the impossibility of solving social problems in capitalism and the defragmentation of social policies through the use of intersectorality was revealed. It is understood that the genesis of the fragmentation and social problems indicated by the Agencies are associated with the material basis that produce them: the social relations of production. These command the whole process and the human needs of social beings are not the priority of the system. We conclude that the apparent technical rationalization conferred to the intersectoriality/multi-sectorality by the international agencies World Health Organization and the World Bank masks ideological and political determinations in favor of the reproduction of social reform proposals allied to neoliberalism. These suppose that with good administration and resource management and intersectoriality it is possible to resolve expressions of the social Issue. The intersectoriality, in the conceptual aspect, must be understood as a technical and political action of articulation between sectors aiming at the construction, reaffirmation or opposition to collective projects.
Key words: social issue, social policy, World Health Organization, World Bank, intersectoriality.
