Interfaces between Vulnerabilities, Governance, Innovation and Capacity of Response to COVID-19 in Brazilian Northeast

Abstract

Abstract Worldwide, the COVID-19 has generated multiple challenges, requiring responses that can effectively make the sustained decline in disease growth levels, and thereby prevent the collapse of health systems. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the Northeast region of Brazil (NEB) has been building capacity to respond in an innovative and articulated way to the challenges of the pandemic in its territories. This is an essay, based on documentary research and secondary data, collected from state institutional sources and other Brazilian official bodies. The results allow us to conclude that in the NEB these responses are being conducted in an articulated way considering interfaces between social vulnerability, governance and innovation.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• Northeast of Brazil
• Vulnerability
• Governance
• Innovation