Baptista Tatiana Wargas de Faria, Borges Camila Furlanetti
Departamento de Ensino, Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). Av. Rui Barbosa 716, Flamengo. 22250-020 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, Fiocruz. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
Cien Saude Colet. 2021 Nov 15;26(suppl 3):5171-5181. doi: 10.1590/1413-812320212611.3.28722019. eCollection 2021.
The article analyzes the trajectory and thought of Carlos Gentile de Mello highlighting his contributions to the political and social debate on health between the 1960s and 1980s. He discusses the interfaces between the developmental project and health and addresses the expansion of the privatizing model especially the effects of the model on medical practice and the health of the population. The article analyzes the contribution of Gentile's analysis to the debate on Public Health and Brazilian Health Reform in the 1970s, especially on the political and institutional conditions for the project of universalization.