This article analyzes the responses of Afro-Brazilian religions to the Aids epidemic in Recife, considering the religious symbolic structure. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted with Afro-Brazilian religious leaders a...
Strenghtening primary health care has been a core strategy for the building of the Brazilian Health Care System. Recent guidelines issued by OPAS and the Ministry of Health highlight the role it has played as a communication thematic network center, ...
After studies of masculinity, it is not possible to think the production of gender identities without referencing them to the relational character. This change was due to incorporation of the relational perspective in this field of study and criticis...
This study proposes analyze which variables are associated with difficulty in gaining access to elderly people with disabilities to health services. This is an observational study of analytical cross-sectional character, with a sample of 244 elderly ...
This study aims to assess the accessibility in the basic units of the Family Health Strategy (ESF-UB) and Traditional Basic Units (BU-T) in Recife in 2009. Data were collected through three instruments: a guide for systematic observation of the units...
The goal of this article is to characterise the profile of access realized to services offered by PSF in area with important private subsystem coverage. The city chosen was Santo André in the state of São Paulo. The sample was drafted on the assu...
In many countries, a person’s visit to Primary Health Care (PHC) may be classified with the International Classication of Primary Care (ICPC-2). This instrument allows to consider the person’s reasons to seek care, beeing hepful to design strateg...
This article analyzes the users‘ understanding about the Psychosocial Care Centers on mental health care, focusing on integrality and access. A qualitative study with theoretical and methodological references of the Fourth Generation Evaluation...
