Social inequality, access conditions to public health care and processes of care in bolivian immigrants in Buenos Aires and São Paulo: a comparative inquiry

Abstract

This work is the result of an emerging partnership, exchange and joint production recently started between institutions, teachings and research teams belonging in our countries. Part of the respective investigations and intervention tasks that we have been doing for some time around the phenomenon of Bolivian immigration both in Buenos Aires and São Paulo, and the processes of labor integration of these immigrants in relation to their health status focusing on the care processes that develop against the conditions they suffer in the social context of the target. An inquiry is presented in comparative key that search establish a first approach to the analysis of the similarities and differences between the two case studies, as a contribution to the need for an approach to the research problem in all its complexity, from a sociocultural perspective, and at the level of regional public health.