This study compares the challenges for work in emergency services of public university hospitals in Algeria, Brazil and France. The description and analysis are organized in three axes: context and trajectory of the health systems, hospitals and emer...
The aim of the present study was to transculturally adapt the Body-related Self-Conscious Emotions Fitness instrument (BSE-FIT) to the Brazilian Portuguese language. The adaptation process involved the following steps: translation of the BSE-FIT into...
This article briefly analyses the central points of the World Bank’s agenda for the reform of national states in Latin America, between 1980 and 2017. The text is based on World Bank documents and specialized literature. Initially some relevant asp...
This study identifies factors associated with unspecified and ill defined causes of death in the state of Amazonas (AM), Brazil. A cross-sectional study was developed including 90,439 non foetal deaths of residents in AM2006 to 2012. Hierarchical mul...
We examined the impact of air pollution on hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in total population (DRT), in children under five (DRC) and for cardiovascular diseases in patients over 39 years of age (CVD) in the municipalities of Belo Horizont...
The aim was to determine is suicidal-related behaviors (SRB) and Health-related quality of Life (HRQL) are associated and whether this association is independent of substance use, violence, and sociodemographic variables. Cross-sectional study with 1...
This article analyses major characteristics of federalism in Brazil and its institutional relations with health policies. Conceptually speaking it combines traditional theoretical issues to main traditions in Brazil as to its centralized pattern of f...
This article presents a historical and epistemological study of the construction of public policies about mental health and psychosocial care in Brazil´s universal health system (SUS). To that end, it proposes an approach that identifies actions and...
