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Vol. 17 No. 3 (2022): DEZEMBRO 2022

State capacity and public health cooperation networks in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20985/1980-5160.2022.v17n3.1795
Submitted
May 11, 2022
Published
2022-12-30

Abstract

If before COVID-19 the state's capacity to provide access and care to public services was already questionable in terms of effectiveness, with the rapidity of spread, contagion, and lethality caused by this pandemic disease, this has become an object of central concern related to the urban issue and urgent for public managers. In this context, this article aims to investigate the role of state capacity and public cooperation networks, specifically the Inter-municipal Health Consortia, in the contagion and lethality control of COVID-19. As a method, binomial logistic regression was used for modeling, considering 2,884 municipalities in Brazil. The main findings of the analyses were that the four hypotheses established revealed evidence for their acceptance, indicating that municipal participation in public cooperation networks, such as inter-municipal health consortia, is an effective urban management measure to mitigate the effects of the pandemic crisis. Finally, based on the Brazilian experience and the conclusions and contributions of the work, it was verified that the inter-municipal health consortiums are auxiliary but positive elements in controlling the contagion and lethality of COVID-19 at a regional level.

Keywords: Urban Public Management; Local Government; Interorganizational Relationships; Intermunicipal Consortia.

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