A contribuição da Indústria de Saúde israelense para o Poder Nacional do Estado de Israel

Abstract

The health sector is one of the sectors capable of contributing significantly to the increase of the fundamental, individual and collective needs of the society. For Israel, the health sector goes beyond this social function: it contributes directly to national resilience and Israel Defense Forces support. Our research aimed to investigate the relationship between the Israeli Health Industry and the National Power of the State of Israel, to answer the following problem: Has the Israeli Government's stimulus to the Israeli Health Industry the purpose of contributing to the sovereignty and for the defense capacity of the State? In the first chapter, we present a theoretical basis in which we approach some historical aspects about Israel and a conceptualization of the Health Industry, in which the main aspect for its delimitation is the fact that it is constituted by agents that produce health assets, thus including the hospitals and health plans. Our study approach the power projection theories of Robert Gilpin and Norbert Elias, associating them with the Innovation theories studied by theorists such as Lundvall and Mazzucato. In the second chapter, we approach the relationship betwen the Health Industry and the entities responsible for national security, such as The Home Front Command, presenting links between them. In the third chapter, we approach the policies of state promotion to the health sector, showing a growing process of sophistication of its structure, passing through the government entrepreneurship programs of the early 1990s, and also establishing a relationship with the passage of the National Health Insurance Law of 1994. In this chapter, we also show the Israel's influence projection experiences in the global market, particularly with the Teva Pharmaceutical Industry. We conclude that the Health Industry, as we conceptualize it in this work, has direct participation in the National Security of the State of Israel, contributing to the national resilience of Israeli society and to Israel Defense Forces performance, as well as representing a projection vector of international influence in search for competitive advantages.