Medical support for chronic dialysis requires large amount of financial resources. Demographic shifts, aging of the population and increase of diabetes and hypertension prevalence suggest substantial rise in the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) population. In addition, this increase has been accompanied by increasing costs to the providers of treatment that holds a dominant position within dialysis market because of expensive technology required and intensity of labor in the delivery of the treatment. Despite chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been recognized as a worldwide public health problem, each country has its own public policy and its own reimbursement model. This paper has examined and compared reimbursement of chronic dialysis in four countries members of Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), that includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and from analyzes it was possible to conclude that exist monetary differences among countries regarding reimbursement for dialysis that is attenuated when applied normalization of obtained results as a function of the living standard per country. In general, Brazil was the country that maintained the lowest reimbursement among countries to maintenance dialysis services but reimbursement package in Argentina include more specific elements and neither has reimbursement adjustments for specific patient groups nor nonstandard dialysis strategies. The obtained results, when compared with international literature review that compared government reimbursement for different dialysis strategy worldwide, reveals lower reimbursement rate in the countries member of MERCOSUR when it compared with high-income countries.

This article provides the epistemological perspective of the Center for Latin American Integration Studies “Manuel Ugarte” of the National University of Lanús (CEIL-UNLa). In this work we share the epistemic premises that guide the projects of the CEIL-UNLa, which propose the passage from the “social turn”, typical of the regional integration experience deployed at the beginning of the 21st century towards the symbolic-identity dimension of integration Latin American or “territorial turn”, based on the categories of the political and cultural geography and in the historical review of the process of territorial formation. In that sense, we present two projects developed by CEIL-UNLa, the Historical Atlas of Latin America and Caribbean.1. “Atlas Histórico de América Latina y el Caribe. Contributions for cultural and pedagogical decolonization” published by the UNLa in 2016 and the “Content Platform” of the Centro Ugarte, launched online in 2018, based on the epistemic horizon presented here.

This paper addresses the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress-related mental disorders in hospital health personnel who are in charge of the care of suspected or confirmed coronavirus patients in Argentina. To this end, research on mental disorders diagnosed in health personnel who carried out their work in hospitals where epidemic diseases such as SARS, MERS or Ebola were treated are analyzed; At the same time, the stress manifested by health personnel who care for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients is examined. Finally, it is proposed that the Argentine regulations be harmonized with the guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on the matter.

This article identifies the bottlenecks or restrictions that affect the mobility of patients in the border areas of the founding States of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The inputs prepared in the framework of the action “Cross-border Cooperation in health with emphasis on facilitating patient mobility” proposed by the MERCOSUR Social Institute (ISM) to the Program for the strengthening the social cohesion in Latin America, known as EUROsociAL + are key elements. As a result of this inter-institutional collaboration, a typology of obstacles to patient mobility in MERCOSUR is proposed.

This research aimed to identify and analyze barriers that prevented full and universal access to health services offered by the public health network, by Haitian immigrants residing in the city of Toledo, State of Paraná. To achieve the objectives outlined in the research, a standardized questionnaire was applied, which had informants from Haitian immigrants living in the municipality. Based on the results found, the description of barriers to access to health services offered by SUS was carried out. From the data analysis, it was found that linguistic differences and the lack of circulation of information about SUS constituted the most severe barriers to access to public health services by Haitian immigrants.

En este articulo hacemos un levantamiento de la bibliografia que nos podria llevar a comprender las bases para un pensamiento posmoderno y decolonial de los derechos humanos e integracion en Latinoamerica. iPor medio del pensamiento, especialmente de Judith Butler, Maria Lugones y Walter Mignolo preguntemonos ?es posible unir estas ideas? ?Como hacer una reflexion critica acerca de los Derechos Humanos en America Latina? En busca de estas reflexiones es formulado el presente trabajo.

El Tratado de Asuncion, que fue firmado en 1991 y que cumple 30 anos este ano, marca el compromiso de los Estados Parte del MERCOSUR en la puesta en marcha de un proyecto de integracion regional que contempla un territorio con un PIB de 4.580.000.000.000 de dolares, lo que representa el 82,3% del PIB total de toda Sudamerica. Abarca un territorio de casi 13.000.000 de kilometros cuadrados y cuenta con mas de 275 millones de habitantes, cerca del 70% de la poblacion de America del Sur, es decir, siete de cada diez sudamericanos(as) son ciudadanos o ciudadanas del MERCOSUR.

Este artigo tem como propósito analisar a questão das migrações transnacionais no âmbito de três países americanos, Brasil, Colômbia e Estados Unidos da América, a partir de duas questões dimensionais: 1) Qual é autonomia dos Estados em relação ao nível de controles fronteiriços e de identidade nacional? 2) De que forma o controle de fronteiras de cada país é necessário para manter a segurança interna, tanto econômica quanto social? Nesse sentido, um fluxo imigratório específico foi dedicado a cada um dos três países em tela: os haitianos no Brasil, os venezuelanos na Colômbia e os mexicanos nos Estados Unidos da América. Questões de controle fronteiriço e identidade nacional foram igualmente levantadas a fim de compreender as repercussões de tais fenômenos migratórios nos países de acolhimento.

O desafio para compreender a dinâmica maquiladora materializada nas empresas instaladas em Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC) exigiu buscar alguns contornos teóricos capazes de explicar a nova dinâmica industrial global, bem como analisar os pressupostos da Lei da Maquila. Do ponto de vista metodológico, o referencial teórico correspondeu às abordagens conceituais oferecidas pela geografia (especialmente em sua vertente econômica e política) e pela sociologia. A pesquisa empírica alimentou-se na coleta de dados secundários e primários. As Empresas Maquiladoras instaladas neste território fronteiriço são expressão da divisão regional do trabalho com características da industrialização periférica pautadas nos recursos vantajosos de produção como mão-de-obra barata, incentivos fiscais pela Lei de Maquila, água e energia elétrica. O que poderia ser uma oportunidade para se industrializar, acaba sendo mais uma forma de sobrevivência do mecanismo local e global, organizando-se de acordo com as exigências empresariais externas.