Pandemic and Sociosanitary Policies in Latin America

• Autores: Nercesian, Inés, Cassaglia, Roberto, Morales Castro, Vanessa
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad del Pacífico
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad del Pacífico
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.up.edu.pe:article/1466
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.up.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/1466
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Pandemic; Public policies; State capacities; pandemia; políticas públicas; capacidades estatales

This paper analyzes the health and socio-economic policies adopted by six Latin American countries during the SARS-CoV-2’s pandemic: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It proposes the hypothesis that the behavior of the pandemic and the decisions taken depended on the relationship between relevant situational factors – namely, the profile of the government and state elites – and structural elements such as state capacities, sociodemographic characteristics, and human development indexes. This article adopts a comparative analytic strategy and employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.