SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH-DISEASE PROCESS

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE :Neglected diseases such as tuberculosis have a high prevalence and mortality in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, being a concern of professionals and managers of public health. This disease affects mostly local high population density and low health resources. The city of Rio de Janeiro is the Brazilian city where there are the greatest number of people dwelling in informal urban settlements with substandard housing. This paper proposes to discuss the current strategy to fight tuberculosis. METHOD: audiovisual documentary genre production from epidemiological survey data, history of tuberculosis and health development. The title is "The Obvious" (O óbvio). RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: TB fighting strategy in the city of Rio de Janeiro does not seem adequate to the social determinants of health-disease process, causing the incidence of tuberculosis to remain in the same locations and to affect primarily people with low income and education.