THE DELIBERATE OMISSION OF THE BRAZILIAN STATE IN HEALTH PREVENTION AS A PUBLIC POLICY IN THE SERVICE OF RADICAL CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY

Abstract

Still living the health crisis, apparently in a moment of less intensity, Brazil has seen the emergence of a new contagious disease, which the media baptized as "monkey pox", generating a new, but purposely invisible collective health emergency. The article draws on the theory of public policies, especially their formulation cycle, the examination of the Brazilian constitutional text, and the constitutional principles of the right to health and equality, to discuss the apparently purposeful absence of public policies to combat monkey pox by the federal government. From the study of public policy formulation, it is necessary to investigate whether state non-doing, in this case on epidemiological prevention, is a form of doing, especially when there is evidence that ideologically guided by homophobia of national political actors.