The present study addresses mental health and, based on a conceptual review, offers considerations on the management of deinstitutionalization processes regarding individuals interned in long-stay psychiatric institutions. Elements concerning asylum ...
The paper examines, through surveys, how care is practised by Family Health Team (FHT) doctors and nurses in four state capitals. It identifies issues relating to priority actions, routine activities and the association between professional profile a...
The objective of this study is to characterize Brazilian/Latin American scientific production in the “field” of health and on health systems management specifically, taking work registered on the LILACS databases in the period 1987 to 2009 as a b...
This study analyses psychological autopsies and contextualize problems and issues related to the suicide of old people in the Rio de Janeiro city between 2004 and 2007. The study started analyzing 26 reports of criminal experts about suicide in old l...
The purpose of this study was to discuss the administrative sustainability of Brazilian’s Vocational Health Schools (ETSUS) under a work-education integration framework, which brings a new dimension to healthcare work still not regulated by the Bra...
This study identifies possibilities and limitations of contracting to improve health care management, accountability and quality, and expand the participation of teaching hospitals in the health services’ network in the context of the Restructuring...
The hospitalization process in therapeutic communities (TC) involves a multiplicity of therapeutic practices and strategies oriented to the abstinence of the use of drugs. According to the specialists’ own regulations and explicit objectives, the ...
Based on bioethical reflections on human rights, it was implemented a descriptive study on the perception of public administrators and counselours. A survey was conducted with 50 participants, divided in two groups: 29 counselours on rights of disabl...
