The production of space circuit Reagents for diagnosis: the case for laboratory analysis in health services in São Paulo

• Grant number: 11/15134-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Mendes Antas Jr
• Grantee: Rafael da Silva Almeida
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to contribute to the studies on production circuits of spatial diagnostic reagents in State area, through an investigation that shows the spatial relationship of these production lines as the services of laboratory analysis of health in the city of São Paulo, ie the establishment and consolidation of the commercial networks laboratory analysis are related to the process of urbanizing modernity in the State of São Paulo, regarding the development of health economics, today strongly based on new organizational and technological paradigms. The research will be the central object labs consumers diagnostic reagents and industries producing these reagents, specifically base chemical industries and biotechnological producers and distributors of various types of diagnostic reagents.