The Evolution of Hospital and Health Governance - between local and global (Editor's note)

Abstract

The authors of this supplement of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos propose a comprehensive approach to the complexity of the hospital as a historical object, reflecting on the multiple circulations and temporalities of hospital management, medicine, and public health in contemporary history (Granshaw, Porter, 1989). Different theoretical perspectives methodologies are used within the broader context of scientific, social, economic, and political changes from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first (Gorsky, Vilar-Rodríguez, Pons-Pons, 2020). By reflecting on the interaction of local and global influences, a narrative focused on the determinants of public health is presented. These articles thus offer an overview of the multifaceted evolution of hospital management in the local-global dichotomy (Packard, 2016).