Article
Portuguese
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Abstract
transcribes and commented on three articles published in the Bulletin of the Special Service for Public Health in the early 1950s by the Sociologist José Arthur Rios. The Tariff texts provide important references to the understanding of a period in which cultural change projects guided health programmes and, in particular, health education actions. The presentation sought to put into context the activities carried out by the Special Public Health Service, an agency set up in 1942, as a result of a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the US. Aspects of José Arthur Rios’ trajectory and its intellectual influences are also highlighted, and it is proposed to discuss the role of social scientist in non-academic areas and in the formation of agencies and public policies in Brazil.