Potencial teórico, metodológico e analítico no pensamento de Mario Testa: um chamado para transcender fronteiras

Potencial teórico, metodológico y analítico en el pensamiento de Mario Testa: un llamado a trascender fronteras

Abstract

Mario Testa, Argentine doctor, fundamental for the study in the area of ​​Health Policies, Planning and Management. Fundamental piece in collective health studies, due to its theoretical and methodological potential, which gives them greater theoretical and analytical density. However, its knowledge is little disseminated in Latin America, being necessary due to the theoretical rarity present in the area of ​​policies and planning. This essay aims to make a brief description of four central elements in the work of Mario Testa. First, Testa's career shows the importance of critical work without dogmatism. Second, the proposal of strategic thinking that has power as a central category, places as important the understanding of the historicity of social subjects and processes, planning in its political nature and the postulate of coherence. Third, possibilities of using the author's theory as a theoretical-analytical tool are indicated. Finally, the possibility of finding in the author the possibility of social transformation through a theory of action is explored. Testa's thinking is current, alive and deserves wide dissemination to strengthen the area of ​​Health Policies, Planning and Management in Latin America.