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Revolving doors and conflicts of interest
in health regulatory agencies in Brazil
Title: Revolving doors and conflicts of interest
in health regulatory agencies in Brazil |
Authors: Scheffer, Mário C Pastor-Valero, Maria ![](/jspui/image/ORCID.jpg) Russo, Giuliano ![](/jspui/image/ORCID.jpg) Hernández-Aguado, Ildefonso ![](/jspui/image/ORCID.jpg) |
Editor: BMJ Publishing Group |
Department: Departamentos de la UMH::Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología |
Issue Date: 2020-03 |
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11000/30516 |
Abstract:
Regulatory health agencies exist in most
public health systems (PHS) and play a
crucial role in enacting regulation and overseeing
economic activities in order to ensure
the quality of health systems, goods and
services.1 Multiple practices of corruption
such as bribery or fraud have been reported
in health policy and systems.2 Public health
agencies are particularly susceptible to ‘regulatory
capture’,3 4 a process by which an
agency advances the special interests of the
industries and of other actors it is entrusted
with regulating. One of the mechanisms that
can potentially lead to an agency capture is
the so-called
‘revolving door’,5 the situation
where an exchange of roles between public
regulators and regulated institutions may
result in health policy decisions which are
biased in favour of industry interests.
Revolving doors have previously been
described in the USA and Europe, with an
emphasis on legislative, energy, financial
and patent agencies. However, there is little
empirical evidence on the scale and scope
of this problem in PHS. In this commentary,
we explore the extent of the revolving
doors phenomenon in Brazil by analysing
the professional trajectories of public agents
who held high positions at the two key health
regulatory agencies in the country between
1999 and 2018.
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Keywords/Subjects: Revolving doors conflicts of interest in health Regulation of health |
Knowledge area: CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Medicina |
Type of document: application/pdf |
Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002325 |
Appears in Collections: Artículos Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología
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