Policy Transfer For Epidemiological Surveillance In Brazil And Argentina

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This article aims to identify how the process of transferring and disseminating public policies in Mercosur occurs, with emphasis on the rules approved by Mercosur in the area of Epidemiological Surveillance. The main objective is to identify norms in this area and to infer how they are incorporated by two of its main member states: Argentina and Brazil. In order to develop this objective, the article identifies and examines the rules proposed within Working Subgroup 11 regarding the themes of Mercosur Epidemiological Surveillance and subsequently approved by the Common Market Group (GMC), one of the main decision-making bodies of the bloc. Then, the article identified how each of the analyzed states incorporated the norms approved through GMC resolutions and which refer to epidemiological surveillance. The results achieved present a classification of the current status of the process of incorporating each of these resolutions in Argentina and Brazil. Mercosur has political and economic challenges to face, but it has served as an instrument for the transfer and diffusion of public policies, contributing in some thematic areas to the formulation of public policies and normative arrangements, as occurred in the area of epidemiological surveillance. In this way, identifying the percentage of resolutions internalized by member countries contributes to highlighting not only the complexity of public policy transfer studies, but also to defining the degree to which approved resolutions are incorporated by member countries.

Keywords: Diffusion; Policy Transfer; Mercosur; Health. 

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Pereira, A. E., & Oliveira, V. S. (2020). Policy Transfer For Epidemiological Surveillance In Brazil And Argentina. Conjuntura Global, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v9i2.67858

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