Health inequality (in)sensitive to changes in advanced cancerxs treatments

As Baer et al. (2003) insist, health inequities should be study through exposing processes by which people are constrained or resisting external forces in the context of local social words. In the case of cancer in Argentina,  it´s important to note that it is the second leading cause of death, following cardiovascular diseases. To respond that situation, the sanitary system of Argentina through the Ministry of Health and Social Action has been regulating and planning health care activities, which rely upon the three main providers of the country: the public sector, mutuals or social plans (semi-public plans in which employers and employees each pay a fixed fee for health care in varying proportions and the private sector. This research -carried out in the Palliative Care Service of a general hospital, a private institute and a mutual of Buenos Aires- began in 2010 and is still on process. It is based upon a qualitative inquiry strategy and the general objective is to identify and explore different ways to deal with the disease with the focus on the cancer trajectories and the family support: the engagement with local organizations, the care by with the local is nested within higher-level social structures, resources requested, among many other variables. The theoretical background is closely link to critical medical anthropology. Culturally relevant public health issues are included–but not exclusively-, due to the need of explanation for the heterogeneity map of cancer in the country and the fragmented health system that is in charge of affronting it. However, this view goes beyond policy maker narrowed perspective who tend to simplify problems as many authors noted, such as Janes & Corbett (2010). On the contrary, relationships among local life words and the global forces of neoliberal development are remarked, specially the structural violence