The inter-relations between the man and the environment are among the main themes currently debated by the brazilian public health. On such horizon, the questions concerning Chagas’s disease are found to remain — specially in the scope of the dir...
Hospitalization rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions have been used to assess effectiveness of the first level of health care. From a critical analysis of related concepts, we discuss principles for selecting a list of codes and, taking the...
The bioethical debate on euthanasia (“good death”) has been classically polarized between the principles of sacredness of life – the argumentation against – and the quality of life, represented by the vicarious principle of respect for autono...
This article brings about both a discussion and reflection on the activation of comprehensiveness in the work process of multi-professional teams in collective health. It has been grounded on the theory of complexity, by Edgar Morin, as well as on th...
Family health programs (PSF) represent one of the major public programs in Brazil covering 5,601 municipalities in 2006 (91.8%). This study evaluated Teresópolis municipality PSF (RJ) through information and perceptions of adults responsible for chi...
The half term of the last century had attended to the appearance of organizations that reflected the civil society mobilization for an effective participation in the public and social questions. Soon, these organizations, called no governmental (NGO)...
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) emerged as a science only after the 70’s with the energetic crisis and consequently, with the sealed buildings (without natural ventilation). Initially, it’s occurred chiefly in development countries but soon spread out a...
The objective of this study is to identify characteristics of quality of services that attend women’s health in the professionals of health surveillance (VISA) and coordinators of women's health (CWH) perspective working at municipalities. It’s a...
