La Pandemic in Argentina: hegemonico medical model and State

Abstract

Pandemic of Covid-19 in Latin America, has generated a crisis in health, economic, political and social terms and also practices that respond to logics framed in the called Hegemonic Medical Model (HMM) have been strained. The purpose of the present work is to reflect categories and theoretical aspects of HMM in Argentina, dominant currently and it has proved weaknesses in the Argentinian health system besides in rest countries of the region. We made a theoretical and methodology revision based on authors of the health sociology field relating it to contemporary researchers who have analyzed the COVID-19. We reviewed relations between pandemic and social control category, medicalization, also we asked ourselves about the role of the argentine state since the decree that set up the Social, Preventive and Required Isolation. This reflection allowed us to think about the current crisis caused by the pandemic, importance of state intervention with public politics and the need to conceive health as a right to secure universal access to it