Abstract
The global health agenda has made significant strides in neglected diseases. In a dynamic movement, throughout the past two decades, it has assumed different priorities, strategies and meanings. Nevertheless, important challenges persist in terms of geopolitical, economic, epistemological and social development. The designation and location of neglected diseases in certain territorial spaces and populations is historically related to some dynamics such as those of a colonial and capitalistic nature. They reveal continuities in the rationality of policies and actions, pervading asymmetries between peoples, institutions and nations. Although it has positively included the debate on neglected diseases, it can be argued the global agenda of public health has yet to assume and evoke the dimension of neglected bodies and populations with more theoretical and methodological vigor, by intensifying the dialogue between biomedical and political-economic fields. It means reinforcing the critical understanding of the historical vulnerabilities of individuals in the production of knowledge, as well as giving prominence and taking into account their ways of leading their lives in conjunmction with local public health priorities and practices.
Highlights
The shaping of global agendas reveals abilities to attract resources and powers, as it mirrors guidelines and trends in the ways of knowledge production
Tensions in the production of knowledge and their repercussions in the field of health, records of global policies and health practices are addressed in this article
Healthcare operating ways in the concrete lives of individuals and populations are investigated from the concept of neglected diseases, which are agreed upon in global health agendas, such as those that historically affect vulnerable populations and attract scarce resources from countries and businesses[6]
Summary
The shaping of global agendas reveals abilities to attract resources and powers, as it mirrors guidelines and trends in the ways of knowledge production. A significant ensemble of authors has devoted time to discuss global policies, their dynamics, contours and priorities, especially with regard to questioning knowledge production and interventions projects, as well as repercussions on the life and health of vulnerable populations. These relationships have been put into analysis in dialogue with the contexts of different national realities[1,2,3,4,5]. In the Latin American context, debates in the field of public health undertake analyses based on a critical reading of the relationship between knowledge production, policies and health practices anchored in a project that transforms social conditions. This concept is important for social studies of science analytically, and in terms of the production of socially relevant, emancipatory, yet often subalternized knowledge
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