Articles

0615/2012 - Accessibility to primary health care in a Sanitary District of Salvador (24/08/2012)
Luciano Sepúlveda Oliveira, Rosana Aquino, Maria Guadalupe Medina, Alcione Brasileiro Oliveira, Gabriel Brasil Gil, Marco Aurélio Sepúlveda Oliveira, Leilane Grazziela Nascimento Almeida
Artigo Temático
Publicado

The demand and use of health services resulting from a range of determinants that include socioeconomic, demographic and health caracteristics and organization of the supply of services. Objective: To characterize the accessibility and use of health ...

1417/2012 - Community Health Workers: agents of meetings between territories (24/08/2012)
Samira Lima da Costa, Emílio Nolasco de Carvalho
Artigo Temático
Publicado

The article presents reflections produced from a series of meetings with Community Health Workers, over ten years. Identifies the consolidation of two existential territories, wich sometimes approach and sometimes move apart between themselves: the t...

1517/2012 - PRÁTICAS CONTRACEPTIVAS DE ADOLESCENTES BRASILEIRAS: VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL EM QUESTÃO (23/08/2012)
Riva Rozenberg, Katia Silveira da Silva, CLAUDIA BONAN, Eloane Gonçalves Ramos
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado

Objective: To analyze the contraceptive practices of Brazilian adolescents and to discuss associated vulnerability situations. Methods: A cross-sectional study, using the database of National Survey on Demography and Health of Women and Children –...

0714/2012 - Epidemiological profile of HIV-positive individuals and HIV-Leishmania co-infection in a referral center in Sao Luis - Maranhão. (22/08/2012)
Flávia Lopes Carvalho, Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas, Dorlene Maria Cardosos de Aquino, Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa, Conceição Maria Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, Zeyle Fernandes Segunda, Diana Leite Sousa Aires
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado

The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a public health problem and Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most frequent co-infection. This study has as aims to describe the epidemiological aspects of HIV-positive individuals and to investigate ...

1496/2012 - Men, Health and Policy (22/08/2012)
Romeu Gomes, Márcia Thereza Couto
Artigo Temático
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1364/2012 - Market failures and public policy networks: challenges and possibilities for Brazilian Unified Health System (21/08/2012)
Francisco Percival Pinheiro Filho, Flávia Mori Sarti
Artigo Temático
Publicado

The principles and guidelines of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) impose a structure of healthcare services based on public policies networks, which combined to the financing model adopted, leads to market failures; imposing barriers to the ...

1257/2012 - Uso clínico e controle sobre a dispensação de talidomida em Brasilia-DF, Brasil, de 2001 a 2012. (21/08/2012)
Francisco José Roma Paumgartten, Nair Ramos de Souza
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado

Thalidomide, a sedative drug and human teratogen, had been banned in the 1960s and re-entered the market with new clinical indications in mid 1990s. Contrasting to most countries, use of thalidomide has never been discontinued in Brazil where it is p...

0964/2012 - Nutritional counseling for children under two years of age: opportunities and obstacles as strategic challenges (20/08/2012)
Aline Aparecida de Oliveira Campos, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta, Julicristie Machado de Oliveira, Adriana Kelly Santos, Raquel Maria Amaral Araújo
Artigo de Revisão
Publicado

ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze critically the state of the art of scientific production on the practice of counseling in nutrition of infants younger than two years of age, discussing about the potential and obstacles while strategic challeng...