Cooperação interfederativa no Brasil no contexto da pandemia: o caso da Prefeitura do Salvador com o Governo do Estado da Bahia combate a COVID – 19

Abstract

This paper analyzes the process of interfederative cooperation between the Government of the State of Bahia and the Municipality of Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case is accurate from the Theoryof Common Resources (CPRs). This approach has as methodology of analysis the table Institutional Analysis Development Framework, from three axes: external variables, arena of action and results achieved. The nature of the method of this research was classified as exploratory and qualitative. Interfederative cooperation is an important element in the field of public policies, especially in healthpolicy. The Unified Health System, whose collaborative bases are already in its design, since its origin in the constitutional text through the principles of hierarchization and regionalization of services was one of the precursors of interfederative cooperation in Brazilian public policies. The SUS is a model that assumes national federative articulation, with an important coordinating, inducing and funding role of the Union, but which maintains relevant autonomy of subnational governments. Internal and external factors arising from Brazilian political and economic instability in the current context of the pandemic induce changes in the way public policies are addressed, noting the health area. It is witnessed in the current conjuncture of COVID-19 that health policy in Brazil has taken an uncoordinated conduct federatively by the Federal Executive Power. In this way it has become quite defiant for states and municipalities in the face of the pandemic, to take care of their citizens for themselves. Thus, the vast majority of ubnational governments, acting through the interfederative co-operation, have developed actions proven effective in combating COVID-19, in line with the national and international scientific community and, to the prescriptions of the World Health Organization, as opposed to the Federal Government, which since the beginning of the pandemic position contrary to scientific evidence and the prescriptions of the World Health Organization. The work from the methodological point of view used content analysis with the use of NVIVO software12.